Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-04-09

reason hehpriced horse would upon rather
requiring certain OF which they seem I'M
willing to give"
HoTTENToT DRIVERS
Eight viry little horses harnessed tOa wagon
platform whees-n stands Withholding Fottenot
patches feathers and drives them best pace all in hand
using whip like fshngrod with which he touches Them not
savage but with skill which would make old coacman burst
with envy.
watched process breaking couple of colts, which
fourth OF ten The colts tried
plunge but whsked along and couldn't then they stuck
all and dded along Bit but the rhenoscr bushes
tpped up (here roads, and presently they shook
their heads ocd along quite ubdued Colts here get
other breaking and therefore have action to the eye
The wagon wry little horOugbreds half Arab look
very strange eyes, going at full tilt
q could write volume Cape horses such valiant little
beasts and composed in temper never They nearly all
bays grays very white light gray have
blacks and dark chestnut They not tall and have no
beauty, but these little brues will carry STANDARDIZATION
Dutchman sixty miles day day day. hung canter
you him drink all he get you off saddle
every three hours and let him roll his cOahne his bright
their temper perfect Every morning all
the horses the village turned loose general gaop the water
tank takes place where they drink and lounge little the
fetched back by their nggr the old aers saunter home by them
groom home would be astonhed offering horse
journey nothing refresh himself but a roll in the dust
AUSTRALIAN HORSES
The Australian colonies had horses equal to the world
either ornamental purposes. said have first
this my error) The first settlers imported
them chiefly the Cape and from Valparaiso These were
with the thoroughbred imported from the mother
country.
country was multiplication ofhorscs
plains South America and the breed better stock
than the Spanish One of the principal pursuits of the colonsts
rearing cattc-equed good horsemcn, and these, being
Engshmcn establishing hOrscraCcs indeed has
1870 the stakes the of the
Australian colonies exceeded value those all the
the Continent put together without counting the catchweht
which held whenever stockmcnat is cattle herds
gathered together.
CAS- the coons grew rich they INDUCED amongst other lux
the importation thoroughbred horses and pur
chased England the highest prices the day The
qucnc the New Wales Victoria and
South Australia we'll provided with boodhorscs of the purest
pcdgrec Queensland great Tasmania New
Zealand hc Britain of the Souh) have ace-mecng conducted
with all the English and The Australian bush
equal endurance anything recorded in
equine history other respects the
which they have been treated they have deeOraed and
inferior in quality and symmetry the small select stock of riding
Wales Tasmania the only
colonies in that region
"O late years very fine Arabs have been imported by
Australian coonsts enough known present
planted should congcna the hot plains Australia
There considerable the export Australian
horses India for military and racing purposes where they
familiarity known Wae Authorization of New South Wales
but that trade has recently declined in importance.
"Ihe Australian horse has deservedy the reputation, both at
home and in India of being vicious especially for trick of spite
fully pungng (coonially, buck umpng).
"Ihe explanation simple enough The breed has not the
placid temperament of the Spanish horse will not bear the bru
treatment under which the Spanard and trembes
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