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sales. Nowhere have I ever seen finer mares than 

 those of his by Val d'Or, and it seems to me that they 

 should prove to be of quite sensational value. He will 

 also send over one or two of his best mares forthwith 

 to be covered by Grey Fox, and these, too, will be 

 offered in December. He is himself coming over in 

 June, and intends for the future to make many 

 visits to Europe, where he has not been for eight 

 years. Small wonder that he is " tired" in all the 

 circumstances, with the duties of President of the 

 "B.A." Jockey Club imposed on enormous business 

 interests. 



I think I never saw Tracery looking so well, and the 

 foals by him some to Argentine and some to English 

 time are quite as good as any he ever sired in our 

 country. The youngest Tracery colt is an exceptionally 

 good one. He is exactly typical of his sire both in 

 colour and conformation. January foals born in the 

 Argentine have really a great advantage over our early 

 foals, for at San Jacinto the herbage is now at its very 

 best, the weather is perfect, and the foals can be turned 

 out with their dams from the first. There is an 

 enormous acreage of land with almost boundless 

 paddocks, and cattle without end feeding there along 

 with the blood stock. The emus (so-called ostriches) 

 number about 6000. They are as tame as deer in a 

 park, but they fend for themselves, and are easy to 

 catch when the season comes for relieving them of their 

 feathers, which are used for making brushes, and are 

 always in steady demand. Away in an enclosure of 

 their own there are African ostriches, which, of course, 

 are very much larger than the emus. It would be 

 pleasant to spend a week or two exploring all this 



