CHAPTER IX. 



CARBINE AND HIS CUP. 



A great racehorse. His Cup win. Some interesting par- 

 ticulars. On board the " Orizaba." The voyage to Eng- 

 land. Mr. Ernest Day. His yarns, A successful trip. 

 A letter from Mr. Forrester. Carbine does him out of 

 £28,000. Narrow shave for a fortune. 



In the preceding chapters I hav^e omitted the Mel- 

 bourne Cup won by Carbine in 1890, as I think the 

 horse is worthy of a chapter to himself; he was the best 

 racehorse I ever saw during my residence in Australia. 

 Carbine, by Musket — Mersey, was bred iu New Zea- 

 land, and purchased as a yearling by Mr. Dan O'Brien 

 for 620 guineas. His performances, when they como 

 to be carefully considered, are wonderful. The horse 

 won thirty-three out of forty-three races in which he 

 started, and was only out of a place once, and he was 

 then suffering from a cracked heel. He won fifteen 

 races in succession, and eighteen races out of twenty, 

 being unluckily second in the two he lost. 



As a two-year-old he ran five times in New Zea- 



