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stationed in the Australian waters ; and ' Rous's Emigrant ' 

 appears in the pedigrees of many of the best Austrahan 

 horses. Some good Arabs were imported from India, and 

 one of them, a grey named Satellite, was a famous sire of 

 useful horses. Several of his stock performed gallantly, 

 when carrying the police on their arduous duties in those 

 days. When ' the diggings broke out,' horse-breeding 



Photo bill [The Gresham studio, Adelaide, S. Acstualia. 



Fig. 490. — Mr. Hope Murray's Lubra jumping 6 ft. 



suffered a relapse, because many of the ' hands ' on the 

 ' stations ' where stock were raised, rushed off to the 

 mines, and as the means of transport were at a premium, 

 all kinds of horses fetched fancy prices. Since those days, 

 things have improved, and many thorough-bred horses 

 and mares of the highest class have been imported into 

 Australia and New Zealand with the best results, as 

 regards the breeding of race-horses. Grandmaster, by 



