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AUSTRALASIANS. 



In Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania there are 

 a large number of well-bred galloping ponies, which 

 are essentially of English blood, and which differ but 

 little from the home product. They are generally well 

 up to weight, and are coming into fashion enormously 



Photo by] [M. H. HAYES. 



I^ig- 93- — Colonel Kuper's Australasian pony "Ophir." 



in India, where they have quite superseded Arabs as 

 first-class tournament ponies. 



Colonel de Lisle, a great Indian polo player, and 

 Captain of the Durham Light Infantry Polo Team, 

 is a warm admirer of Australasian ponies, and prefers 

 them to all others for polo in the East. He owned a 

 pair of beauties, and tells me that they were quicker 



