THE FOUNDATION STALLIONS OF AUSTRALIA 9 



Blood Stallions of Note That Were Imported Between 1799 and 1838. 



1 799 . Young Rockingham, by Rockingham. 



1810. Hector, or Old Hector. 



1817. The Governor. 



1822 . Stride, still alive through Princess, by Gratis from Roan Kit, by Stride 



out of a daughter of Camerton, from Cleodora, by Hector. 

 1824. Camerton. (No. 2.) 



Steeltrap (chestnut), by Scud — Prophetess. Sire of Jorrock's dam. 



Satellite (a bay Arab) ; got great weight carriers and police horses. 



1826. Buffalo (chestnut), by Fyldener — Roxana. "(No. 13.) 

 Peter Fin (bay), by Whalebone-Scotina. 



1827. Skeleton (grey), by Master Robert — Drone's dam. (No. 2.) 



1828. Emigrant (Rous') (brown), by Pioneer — Ringtail. (No. 4.) 

 Theorem (chestnut), by Merlin — Pawn. (No. 1.) 



1829. Toss (bay), by Bourbon — Tramp's dam. (No. 3.) 



1830. Romeo (chestnut), by Partisan — Vice. (No. I.) 

 1831 . Wanderer (bay), by Wanderer — Ogress. (No. 2.) 

 1832. Little John (bay), by Little John — Anna. (No. 11.) 



1835. Gratis (bay), by Middleton — Lamia. (No. 42.) 



1836. Dover (bay), by Patron— Maid of Kent. (No. 15.) 



1837. Operator (chestnut), by Emilius — Worthless. (No. II.) 



1838. Lawson's Emigrant (brown), by Tramp — dam by Blucher. 

 Rubens (chestnut), by Priam — Sister to Portrait. 



1838 or 9. Cap-a-Pie (bay), by The Colonel — Sister to Cactus. (No. 5.) 

 Emigrant was the king of them all. If ever you run out the pedigree of 

 an Australian-bred horse of to-day, whose ancestors have dw^elt for some 

 generations in Australia, there crops up the name of Rous' Emigrant. It forms 

 a memorial, far more enduring than brass or iron, to that very gallant sailor 

 and splendid judge of all things connected with the racehorse, the Hon. H. J. 

 Rous, "The Admiral." 



Rous' Emigrant was a black brown, according to one who actually saw 

 him, although some authorities, including the General Stud Book, describe 

 him as having been a bay. In my own eyes I always frame a mental picture 

 of a rich, glowing, mahogany brown horse, with a bold, generous, manly 

 head, a great full eye, a noble crest, deep, fine shoulders, a barrel as round 

 as any cask, and a tremendous loin. "He carries his flag like a Russian duke" 

 of the olden time, and his quarters and gaskins are immense, with hocks 

 straight, flat and strong. Old Mr. Gosper, of Windsor, N.S.W., is reported to 

 have given the following verdict concerning Emigrant, and in the vernacular, 

 "I never seed an 'orse that 1 liked better than Rous' Emigrant. 'Is 'oofs 

 looked as though they war made o' granite, and at eighteen there wasn't a 

 blemish of no sort on 'is legs." A rare horse. 



But if the tide of emigration had been a somewhat weak one up to 1 839, 

 something had evidently occurred in the history of the colony, or in the 

 world's politics, so as to entirely alter that state of affairs, and I am not quite 

 sure what that something might have been. The prosperity of Australia about 

 this period was not very startling. The price of cattle was low, the population 

 was not increasing in a satisfactory manner, "boiling-down" had already been 

 resorted to, and yet, between 1 839 and the commencement of 1 844, fifty-three 

 blood stallions were brought into the country. And the bustle and boom of the 

 gold rush was still in the womb of futurity. 



