Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-04-23
ASIATIC, AFRICAN AND AUSTRALIAN
HORSES
HORSES

days He handled unged backed, and turned "made
horse" broken in spirit "buck-jumper for life The
Australian bucumper reaching his back bounding into the air
and descending lon four sened legs with his between his
knees will only nine good hoemen of ten but at
times actually the saddle his wher he does not
coed in bursting the girth.
The deterioration Australian horse stock to be ascrbed to
the bad permitting herd of horses and run
loose together without any attempt wedding selection
The great California adopt plan copied
presume their Spanish predecessors They pick out stallion
forty corral them-tha is keep them in pound
a certain number dayand then them to the
pasture plains The then keep the horse and the horse
permits intrusion least until he has been defeated in
pitched battle by rival sire.
"A MISUNDERSTANDING scene the driving in from their pastures
of mob young horses Two three mounted stocmen had
by daybeak up the number required About
o'clock the sound of the stockwhpan awful implement having
twelve heavy thong of handle and
cackabe only by pacd handaccompaned by loud shouts
rushing sound like the stampede of the South American
pampas announced the coming of the cavalry They came sweep
ing the garden full speed shrouded wwnd Of
dust and in few minutes nong kicking and fighting about
hundred and fifty horses driven within the soClyard
rounded by ratings eight feet high.
The highest leaps l taken this occasion by
young heavy perhaps runous
fall was the result.
Tasmania formerly known Van Diemcns Land is the
Sleepy Hollow the Australian colonies With magnificent
climate yet temperate without the drawback OF the violent
winds and that affect New Zealand for want
of bow-room pastures and the stimulus Of mineral wealth.
the way race-course, writes Colonel Mundy
passed by dogcart driven by young by
astrotng hacks ridden by beauX tops and cords
hats and hunting whips
The running absurdy bad but there nice horses
the course good od-ashioned stamp, such
anywhere is unknown in New Wales
Among the running horses worth going distance
THE Farmers Daughter splendid shape
color and breedng hands high back without speck
and of admirable symmetry She would have made sensation in
Rotten Row by the tall swe the period although
from hrstcass as a race-horse.'
Such the impressions English colonel thirty years
ago Twenty years later Tasmanan coonis lifted up his voice.
rather took his point out the steady deterioration of
the Australian horses which had take place within his remembrance
He by saying that Circumstances have led during
twenty years pass falls
The journeys have made of hundred
thousand miles nnumcabe have lived amongst people of
similar occupations have had personal of the horses
Of England Ireland France Spain Turkey Syria Palestine Egypt
and Brazil and we'll those Australia and New Zealand
"In the early days New South Wales considerable
used in breeding saddle horses Scs selected with udg
and FLIES allowed a age they
bred
The stock came from England ful-sizcd mares
imported from the Cape Good Hope and Valparaiso
pony Lombock Timor
thoroughbred sre imported England them
fortunately racing Arab introduced
from the Cape and India numbers have much
effect on the native breed But oonsts multiplied and spread
the and horses bred in increasing numbers with
little attention the quality the ses age the
dams, the horse stock rapidly deterioaed.
The foundation of the colonies South Australia Victoria
ebourne) opened market for the horses of New South
Wales and this the Tamanans them I84oWhen
landed in Melbourne horses coming slowly the Sydney
countpoor stuned miserable wreches, produce early
breeding and haphazard ses eggy homeless aboron with here
and there occasional Satellite horse of the of
the original New South Wales stock "sinewy exquisite sym
met with great power Worthless the WERE anything
decent sold for 66o before the insolvency S43
ceased three of these 600 would barely
OF New South Wales the price o saddle.
"'Iaken whole, the sadde-hoes Victoria New South
Wales, and Queensland which speak personal
believe those OF Adelaide offer eXcepon) in height
decidedly below those England inferior figure utterly wanting