The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30
JUMPING Ba7s=o.u,ee FENCES.
Anatraltan u"-."s Sam ." ~. Able to
PerSorm Thi~ Feat =" Perfection.

Most lmnple ar. aware that horses
are very rarely affected ia the wind.
ia Australia or New Z.alan,l bat it is
not SO well known that th" disease.
SAYS the London Sftiur,ity. .Rer,t,H. is
iessening Annually in severity 10 such
am extent that it is expected in IL few
generations it will disappear alto
gether.
The fences of the ste.plcchase course
near Melbourne consist principally "f
posts and rails and stone walls from
feet 10 inches To- feet 4 inches iT
height. The sight Of the ambulance
wagon accompanying the race in an
inner circle must he horribly suggest
i've. The Pari-mntucl. or totalisator.
rs ii is called in Anslralia-a machine.
bv the way. whic costs rs much as
f375-is very popular The propr,-
etors are allowed To charge comMis-
sion Of 10 per cent upon the money
invested in it. and out of this thew are
made to pay ROYALTY Of 3 1-2 per
cent to the racing clubs the remain
ing l-2 per cent being their only
profit In New Zealand about E5O. 00O
a year is added To tn. amount given ia
STAKES by this means.
Horses of II kind may be bought in
Australia for "a sovereign. or even less;
for tl5 or eco Il really scpvic"abe
hack or carriage horse may hr pur-
CHASED" aud l2O guineas is the hi gh-5
est price that Lord Onslow has known
TO tave been given for II carriage
horse. In Australia they hunt tine
wild dog, the kangaroo. or II drag. Ia
New Zealand nuniing began with pa.
per chases: later on some hareS were
imported. aud there are now eleven
packs of hounds in the isi"ns'. Barhed
wire is more or less &C .sl. ct all over
the colony. and on tie .terburv
plains, where there is o. ASA. it is
used most extensively. 1T j. pre-
ciSclv in this " ire district tnat hunting
chi-ily iluurshes." We read OF IA ruu
seven miles straight without a check
over the s,iilest wire country"
IN another run every fence" was
''of wire, or had wire in it. some
foot or so above the gorse hedge'-we
closed the book and shut our eyes for
IA few moments ON reading ihis!-"aud
Yet there was not siugle fall. '" and u
man who rode sixteen stone was al
ways WITH TIE MOUNDS anu UFSl III 3I
the death" The master of the Ash
burton hounds saws that even horses
pumped. AT the end of run. when
they are apt 10 get careless at timer.
never take any liberties with wire.
always clearing it. 4 horse seems TO
have natural dread of getting into
wire." A fence oT barhed wire which
was jumped by four men in run. was
measured by Lord Onsiow's orders.
and ii turned out tn be over i've
feet in height.
Well may the croaker-. who proph-
e,y that the increasing Use of wire for
fencing in England is the doom of fox
hunting take heart when they read
about the wire jumping in New Zca-
land. the already quoted master at
the Ashburton hounds SAYS: We
think very little of ordinary wire. hut
barbed and double barbed-a fence
with barbed wire eac side OF II bank.
sometimes six feet apart and four feet
high-lak" good lot "f jun,ing;'
which we can easily believe. Horses
with T"uchstone blood in their veins
seem particularly TO excel at wirs-
luiupilu