TRAINING, AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 1 9 



is a common occurrence for colts that have perhaps 

 been trucked from Wodonga, a coast town of Victoria, 

 to Melbourne, a distance of i88}{ miles, to escape 

 from their stables after having been broken in to 

 saddle and harness, and make a straight line for 

 home, or wherever they were reared, although it may be 

 three or four hundred miles away? The pace they go on 

 the road is astonishing. It is only by chance that they 

 can be caught sometimes, and then only by having got 

 into a high fenced paddock, and being incapable of 

 getting out of it. In the event of any person losing a 

 colt out of the stable he just looks up the auctioneer's 

 receipt, and probably ascertains the name and address of 

 the breeder, he then writes him, and a few days after- 

 wards will get a reply that the colt is at home all right ; 

 shall he keep him until the next mob is coming to 

 Melbourne? Now, is it possible for man to find his way 

 over country unknown to him without the aid of a 

 mechanical contrivance, or of a technical education 

 of his intelligence, to enable him to read the 

 stars, etc? Instinct enables the possessor of it 

 to retain its own individuality. It is a wonderful power 

 p-iven to the animal bv our Creator for its own self- 

 preservation ; and man acknowledges that power by 

 frequently appealing to it when lost in the bush, by 

 taking the bridle off the horse and letting it go its 

 own road, instinctively to safety and mutual pre- 

 servation. 



