'We're breeding too fine: and soon we shan't be able to horse our troopers.
I call that the land for horses where the cavalry's well-mounted on a native breed.' 'You have your brother's notions of cavalry, have you!' 'I leave it to Philip to boast what cavalry can do on the field.

He knows: but he knows that troopers must be mounted: and we're fineing more and more from bone: with the sales to foreigners! and the only chance of their not beating us is that they'll be so good as follow our bad example.

Prussia's well horsed, and for the work it's intended to do, the Austrian light cavalry's a model.

So I'm told.

I'll see for myself.