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cob. He is without doubt better than any foreign 

 breed now used for polo in England. 



The only ponies of foreign blood that I know 

 In England from personal experience to be of 

 the same class as the best English ponies, are 



Pho/o h>j'] [.M. H. Hayes. 



Fig. 69. — Mr. W. S. Buckmaster's Canadian pony, " Bendigo." 



Mr. Mackeys Californian Rex (Fig. 47), Mr. W. 

 McCreery's E'ollow Me, also a Californian, Mr. 

 Buckmaster's Canadian Bendigo (Fig. 69), Mr F'oxhall 

 Keene's American Texina (Fig. 102), Captain Haig's 

 grey Australian pony, and my own Argentine, 

 Langosta II. Probably between two and three 

 hundred ponies are imported for polo into England 

 every year, and this has been going on for several 



