NEW 



183, 208; breeding in, 187 ; 

 hunting in, 192 ; a dingo 

 hunt, 192 



New Zealand : stud-books, 159, 

 161 ; horses, superiority of, 

 161 ; English stallions im- 

 ported into, 162, 163 ; Stud 

 Company, 163, 164 ; absence 

 of bookmakers from race- 

 meetings, 170 ; betting by 

 means of the totalisator, 171- 

 174; importation of Arab 

 horses, 177 ; annual export of 

 horses, 183 ; price of, 184 ; 

 shipment of horses to India, 

 1 88; breeding in, 190; hunt- 

 ing in, 190; barbed wire 

 fences, 192 ; a run with the 

 Ashburton Harriers, 195 ; 

 effect of wire fences on hunt- 

 ing, 195-198 ; training over 

 wire, 198 ; remarkable per- 

 formance of The Flea, 199; 

 the Maories' methods of 

 breaking horses, 201-204 ; 

 horses trained to ford rivers, 

 205 ; extensive breeding of 

 carthorses, 206 



New Zealand Stud Company, 

 163 ; prices obtained for 

 thoroughbred yearlings, 163, 

 164 ; proposed reorganisation, 

 164 



Nixon, Capt. J., 350 



North, the Hon. W., 349 



Nosebands, 117 



OGILVY, Lord, 334 

 Onslow, Mr. Hughes, 347 

 Oriental manuscripts on polo, 



238-252 

 Osborne, John, anecdote of,]i52 



INDEX 415 



POL 



Oswald, Capt., 348 

 ' Our Horses,' 181, 201, 205,. 



207 

 Ouseley's (Sir Wm.) 'Travels- 



in the East,' quoted, 243, 



249 



PALEY, Mr., 333 



'Palla Maglia,' 252 



Paris polo club, 259 



' Patroclus and Penelope,' 53,. 



54 



Payne, Mr. George, 165, 166 

 Peake, Mr. Walter, 349 

 Peat, Mr. Alfred, 236, 257,. 



258, 283, 305, 307, 323, 331,. 



Peat, Mr. Arthur, 236, 257, 



258, 259, 277, 283, 287, 307,. 



323, 330, 331, 335, 336, 346 

 Peat, Mr. James, 236, 257, 258,, 



283, 307, 323, 331, 336, 363 

 Peat, Mr. J. E., 236, 257,258,. 



259, 283, 307, 323, 331, 336 

 Peel, General, 165 



Pelham bit, 117 



Pemberton, Capt., on polo, 273 



Peters, Major Cecil, 287, 317,, 



329 348 



Peyton, Mr. Algernon, 256 

 Phayre, Capt., 350 

 Pietermaritzburg polo club and 1 



ground, 261 

 Pignatelli, 227 

 Pliny on horsemanship, 221 

 Plinzner, Herr, equerry to the 



Emperor of Germany, 228 

 Plutarch on horsemanship, 224 

 Pluvinel, 227 

 Polo, 235 ; antiquity of the 



game, 238 ; first mention in 



Eastern literature, 238 ; chau 



