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fools ? Would they have given that amount of 

 money if they had not felt confident that they were 

 getting the worth of it ? 



' Bruni ' (September 6, 1902) also said that it was 

 an odd coincidence that since the Arab had been 

 discredited as a sire Australian horses had de- 

 generated. I venture respectfully to suggest that it 

 is more than a coincidence, and that it is not odd. 

 I contend that it is effect following cause. The same 

 cause led to the same effect in breeding thorough- 

 breds, as Captain Upton has stated. ' Bruni ' also 

 points out that some of the foundation stock of the 

 American trotting-horse were ' Arab grades,' and 

 that, though the Arab went out of form in America, 

 as in Australia, there are signs that he is coming in 

 again in the estimation of the American horse- 

 breeders, and he quotes the Horseinan (Chicago and 

 New York), to the effect that ' the American Arab 

 type was with them to-day.' He adds that in 

 conservative England and in enterprising America 

 there is a decided tendency to use the Arab stallion 

 as a sire, and is evidently surprised that it is not 

 the same in Australia. Mr. Tom ]Mann, quoted 

 above, shows the reason. Young Australia merely 

 inquires as to what ^^^-<g^^ he is to back ! 



The Town and Country Journal, September 22, 

 1900, said that there had been no degeneration in the 

 class of Arabs brought to India during recent years ; 

 that the breed had maintained its popularity among 

 Anglo-Indians and natives for all purposes, off the 



