This new type will be coming along in any case, whether we hinder or not, only with this difference, that with hindrance, the few will have them, with encouragement, the many will.
But to get away from outward sentiment, though inwardly one can never get very far away from it, in any department of life, these ponies can be got in quantities, and more so, with each succeeding year. In time, competition will be just as keen for them, as formerly it was for the Tartar pony, and even though there will be many "duds" for racing, these even will be better hacks, while I am convinced that the percentage of good ones for racing, and steeplechasing, will be much higher than that of good Tartar ponies, though it certainly need not be much, to beat that. A Although my appeal is certainly directed only to all my riding colleagues and friends, I am sure the Stewards would not frown on this attempt at merely trying to be a little honest with ourselves, and accept the altered conditions up north, as they are, and not as we have been accustomed to have them, and I think the members, our Stewards, who devote so much of their energies, with all the varied calls on their. time and_ services, would still shave been willing to function over us as Stewards, had circumstances so placed us that we had nothing better to race than donkeys, and will not desert us in the case of our having as well-bred animals as our regulations permit, viz., anything from the northern plains, up to 14 hands. These ponies can be got, and it only requires a little knowledge of where and how to encourage their importation, and not run counter to the laws of life and progress, and attempt to dig up the old-fashioned Roman nose, who in any case wil] soon become a rarity.
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