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known of, it is seized. The consequence is that when a man 

 finds he has anything really good he disfigures and even often 

 maims it, and so no encouragement is given to horse-breeding. 

 The best Barbs come from some distance inland, from districts 

 into which in the anarchic and lawless state of the country it 

 is difficult to penetrate ; but many find their way to Tunis 

 and Algiers, and thence into the markets of Gibraltar and 

 Malta. 



Though Barb ponies are bred everywhere, there is a district 

 about seventy miles from Mogador which is celebrated for its 

 horses, and this would be the place to make for by any one 

 desirous of importing a good animal, and let him take a 

 measuring stick with him ; for it is astonishing how the eye 

 errs in measuring an animal when long accustomed to see only 

 those of a certain height. 



A few South American ponies have found their way to 

 England. Some of them are remarkably good, and none 

 better than the little bay Dublin, belonging to Major Peters, 

 4th Hussars. Though small, Dublin is very compactly made, 

 fast, and as quick as lightning in turning. Some of the Califor- 

 nian ponies are also very good, but though very quick, they are 

 somewhat deficient in speed, have ewe necks and light middle- 

 pieces ; but they are sound, serviceable animals, and in the 

 South California Polo Club Mr. G. L. Waring's Santa Clara, 

 Mr. W. H. Young's Marquis, Mr. E. Woodhouse's Miss Jummy, 

 and Mr. J. B. Proctor's Rex, are all quite celebrities and very 

 varmint-looking. These ponies can be bought very cheaply 

 viz. from io/. to i2/. apiece and so must recommend them- 

 selves to players with shallow purses. 



New Forest ponies can never be said to have made any 

 mark as a breed suitable for polo, though Rosealba, the pro- 

 perty of Mr. Gerald Hardy, bred in the New Forest by an 

 Arab sire out of a Forest pony, has earned a name for herself. 

 Speaking generally of New Forest ponies, they may be classed 

 as more suited for harness than saddle work. As a rule, they 

 are small, thick, but strong-shouldered, short-necked animals, 



