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their merits on the racecourse, as the conditions of 

 climate are ail against a true trial, aud the voyage is 

 long and tedious. The late Hon. James White made 

 an experiment in sending a couple of yearlings to 

 England, Kirkham and Narallen, but they turned out 

 failures. Ringmaster ran in England and won a few 

 races. In the Colonies Ringmaster was a mere pony, 

 and not a first-class racehorse by any means ; so if he 

 could score under about similar weights to those he 

 carried in the Colonies, I think it is an indication that 

 the best Colonial horses would hold their own in 

 England. 



I am perfectly certain that there are many horses 

 in Australia that would give the last Derby winner. 

 Sir Yisto, or any of those behind him, a good lump of 

 weight and beat them. 



Again, when Australian and English horses have 

 met in India, the former have more than held tbeir 

 own. Certainly the Indian climate may be more 

 favourable to Australian horses, although it is very 

 different to what they have been accustomed to. Such 

 horses as Carbine, Abercorn, Marvel, Bungebah, Paris, 

 Strathraore, Portsea, Boz, Fishwife, William Tell, 

 Lochiel, Nelson, Trenton, Fortunatus, Maxim, and 

 others I have seen, were all capable of holding their 

 own in any company. Lochiel was a horse I very 

 much fancied, and over all distances he was a good 

 one. Malua I might have named, and I certainly 



