104 UN AND OFl' THE TURK. 



horses tliat are regarded as first-class. Of course, 

 there are more good horses in England in point of 

 numbers. 



It would surprise a stranger from the old country, 

 well versed in the management of horses, to see how 

 some of the up country horses are ridden and driven. 

 Most of the station horses are really wonderful, and 

 how they stand the work is a mystery, as they are 

 fed almost entirely on grass, when there is any. 



Mr. E. Arnold, the manager of Winbar Station, 

 Louth, in the west of New South Wales, has had 

 great experience with horses. Winbar Station, I 

 might add, is not a small place. It is one of the 

 largest sheep runs in the Colony, and comprises an 

 area of 960 square miles, or, in other words, 582,000 

 acres. 



During the shearing season the mustering horses, 

 that is, horses used by the men who muster the 

 sheep, are changed fortnightly. So that for two 

 weeks at a stretch they have to carry seldom less 

 than r2st. day after day a distance of from forty to 

 fifty miles, over stony country and broken ground, 

 frequently stumbling into rabbit burrows, etc., and 

 yet they stand it year after year. On Winbar 

 Station they have horses eighteen and nineteen years 

 old as clean on the legs as ever they were, and as 

 sure-footed as anyone could wish. I need hardly say 

 there is good blood in their veins, as most of them 



