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COLONIAL HORSES. 



ence on this subject, as I won steeplechases on good ones, 

 such as Jovial, Rebecca, Brown Duchess and Objection. 



Mr. H. W. Grimani-Smith, who is a Manager of Stations 

 for the Queensland Investment and Land Mortgage Com- 

 pany, and is a well recognised authority on Australian 

 horses, has most kindly given me the following notes on 

 these animals. 



Photo ly] 



[TheGresham Studio, Adelaide, s. Australia. 

 Fig. 489. — Mr. Hope Murray's Lubra. 



" Horses, not being indigenous in Australia, were 

 imported into that country from various parts of the world. 

 In the early days of settlement, many mares were brought 

 over from South America, and are supposed to have 

 introduced the vice of buck-jumping, which has made 

 timid riders regard the Australian horse with a good deal 

 of suspicion. 



" Emigrant, a thorough-bred English horse, was im- 

 ported by Admiral (then Captain) Rous, when he was 



