Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-04-23


with the English horse is l-boken his temper cross his PAGES
agreeable compared with the horses
Italy, Asia Minor Egypt he is sluggish temper
his legs in hoo and wanting in stamina. The
Australian horses in their great capacity
compared their figures Thus hundred frequently
done Australia by very miserable looking wrehes
without preparation and off grass Eighty days
consecutve and seventy miles for three four days running
constantly the business In Journey of four
hundred miles have started with fat horses neither which
had been backed for month previously riding leading
other with small pack his back changing saddle occasionally
from to the other The four hundred miles always
compshed without trouble in eight days. and
the horses ready the speed Each night
they roted usually very can grass and
artificial food Of any kind
My object taking practice which common
New South Wales and amongst the Cape-was
because obliged camp horses company will gencr-
ally stop WE'LL whereas however tired will
bles fifteen miles, and be week
rode thirteen those days, and could have done the
hundred miles in fifteen hours had I desired it.
In oveanding with catte-hat is, driving colony
where the cattle Bred South Australia Victoria in the
early days of colonaon the drivers allowed
the work done the owest possible walk for the
under sadie twelve hours stretch and ridden and
alternate days The journey often lasted months If the grass
plentiful the horses grew fat if they became Skeletons
The English specific the improvement the races
had been neglected Jockey clubs Sydney Melbourne
Adelaide offered prizes for winners with nggard hand The
betting rings well attended, betting brisk backegs
became accmascd and Aourshed In no country
racing extensively proportion to its
population New Wales you cannot find
township where there but half dozen hu congrcgatcd
together that does boast its raceshady
pubchoue that have seen races
stony ground billy ground hard sunbaed plains
wide assures, and land heavily timbcrcd'
The plan recommended by Mr. Curr the improvement
Australian horses the destruction Of the of wild horses
we-shaped ses Ga race of pure
sa horscs instead English racing greyhound like stations
bred to galop five furlongs with fcatherweght.
"Somcthng has believe been done this New
South Wales the paraments of these vigorous colonies
consider the wild horse commercial nuisance he will
tnguhed wolves in Great Britain and by the
"Mr Anthony Troope horseman and sportsman,
whose novels form perfect textbook for the yro hunting
field for his portraits equally and unAaterng)
wild horses of Australia the Tasmanian coons described
them
wild cattle and wild horses which roam and wander
will the pastures of distant quaers perhaps the
remarkable evidence of Australian ecundity. is by no
thing for squate drive
hundred wild horses yards prepared purpose
slaughter them II of them be branded thereby showing
that they not in truth Wild but have been the property
individual the brands advertised and the horses pounded
that may paying the expense This
least what should be done is fancy generally found
easier shoot them and to destroy the skim that testimony
may be left the brand The skins hair which are
really wild Sold and the destroyed Now again
wild horse may be found which that he shall be
and broken and used The animal however,
seldom pays the trouble They very pretty to look
at they securing the plain rushing
scrub they sleek and bright eyed we'll name and
tall and they with free action but they
fit for having almost always poor shoulders straight
limbs and chest They already becoming pest to the
squatter destroying his fences eating his grass encng
horses of the horse paddock The work running them is
not bad sport but they who do it be we'll the
doing of is utterly destructive to the horses ridden
"a Victorian coach with perhaps seven or eight
horses, the darkness of the night making through the
tmbecd forest the miles hour with the horses
frequently to their bellies mud with the wheels in and
out of holes four five feet deep phenomenon should
like have shown those maicoah drivers
whom used know home the old days am sure that no
description would make any them believe eas of dr
feel