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COLONIAL HORSES. 



possesses the great advantage, from a horse-breeding 

 point of view, that its equine produce hardly ever suffer 

 from that form of laryngeal paralysis which is commonly 

 termed " roaring," even when their dams and sires are 

 '' musical." Hence the fact of a sire being wrong in his 

 wind is of little detriment to his stud career in that 

 country. The noisy Belladrum and the still more obstre- 

 perous Candlemas, who was own brother to St. Blaise, are 

 cases in point. 



Photo by] 



[M. H. H. 



Fig. 500. — Cape pony (13.3), showing Arab blood. 



Mr. Mellish, whom^ I have the pleasure of knowing, 

 has imported several high-class Cleveland bays and Hack- 

 neys for crossing with South African mares, and may 

 probably be successful in producing fashionable trappers 

 by their means ; but such an admixture of blood would be 

 useless for saddle purposes, if we may judge by the result 

 of similar experiments which have been tried in India. 



x\t present, the vast majority of South African horses 

 might be fairly classed as ponies, from an English polo- 



