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iTis furnished at the Barbados meeting of 1902, when every race of 

 the fifteen on the programme was won by a Jamaican pony. I had the 

 pleasure of shipping the « inners of seven of these races from Jamaica — 

 two of them of my own breeding — and as none of them were soLi for 

 les-* than £40 in Jamaica, it may be judged that breeding racing ponies 

 for export is not unremunerative. I have al>o sent several horses and 

 ponies for hack purposes to Barbados and other islands. Sound useful 

 horses can always sell over there for£-iO. When it is remembered 

 that these islands cannot produce anything like the number of horses 

 which they require for their own use, and that those which t ey do 

 produce are inferior to the Jamaicans, it will hi seen that Jamaica 

 will always find a ready market in the West Indies. (In Barbados 

 most of the larger horses are imported from Prince Edward Island and 

 they take some time before they get acclimatised.) 



For Polo Ponies there is practically an unlimited demand. England 

 can take all that we can produce (provided we produce them good 

 enough) and so will America. Polo has become so immensely popular 

 in both countries during the last ten years, that the demand for Polo 

 Ponies is greatly in excess of the supply. There is hardly a country 

 town in England without its polo club, and every regiment in the ser- 

 vice now has its polo team. When I mention that the officers of the 

 Guards stationed at Windsor between them, own upwards of 60 ponies 

 it will be realised the hold that the game has taken on young Eng- 

 land. Polo Ponies in England fetch all sorts of prices ranging from 

 £25 for a "crock" up to £800 for a flyer. The famous pony " Sailor" 

 was purchased by Mr. Brassey for £800, and prices like £250, £300 

 are by no means uncommon for first .class "tournament" ponies. Ja- 

 maican ponies have been sent to England and some of them have turned 

 out well. Capt. (now Lt. Col.) Kavanagh of the lOth Hussars, who 

 will be remembered in Jamaica as A.D.d to Sir Henry Bluke and a 

 very keen polo player, look a couple of Jamaican ponies with him to 

 England. These were Molly and Creole, both excellent players, up to 

 weight and fast They measured about 14.2 These ponies sold for 

 £250 the pair. Creole won a prize at Hurlaigham Another pair 

 Pilot and Vesta were taken to Ireland by Capt. Hewicke oi the Gun- 

 jiers, and these besides playing in good class polo, won races there 

 The average price of a made polo pony in England (not a first class 

 tournament pony) is £50, and we should have no difficulty in producing 

 quantities of these in Jamaica, with the chance of getting an occ;isional 

 " Sailor" to bring up the average. 



In this connection I may quote an extract from a letter which I re- 

 ceived from Ciipt. 111. D Miller, author of "Modern Polo," and perhaps 

 the greatest authority and finest judge living of Polo ponies. He says, 

 " I never import ponies except the best trained playing ponies that 

 "the country produces, and I never buy young ponies, in fact nothing 

 "under 5 years old as I have no room for young ones. The standard 

 " in England is so high that not one in a hundred English ponies 

 "playing Polo gets into the first class, so you can see that only th« 

 *• best of those you produce in Jamaica would probably be good enough 

 '• for first class in England, and therefore only the best would be worth 

 " importing. I can assure you that there could never be a general 



