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'eat with two others, somewhere in t'ould country. Think of three beggars like that, 

 not fast enough to beat one another." 



Rous' Emigrant paved the way for a magnificent lot of horses and transmitted his 

 superb legs and feet to nearly all of them. If he had done nothing but get Zohrab 

 and Alice Gray (the grand dam of Yattendon, whom I deem one of the ten great 

 stallions of the universe) that alone should have immortalized him. 



This horse's services to the colonial breeders were of such an exalted nature that 

 he occurs in the pedigrees of many of their highest-bred native horses. I don't re- 

 member of any other imported ones, but I do know that both Artillery, owned at 

 Rancho del Paso, and Foul Shot, the property of Mr. Bernard Schreiber, of Bridgeton, 

 Missouri, have each a cross of Emigrant and it is a very good thing to have in a horse. 

 He is described to me as a horse with legs like whalebone and hoofs that could not 

 have been harder had they been made of vulcanized rubber. But such was the char- 

 acter of the pioneer importations. They wanted sound and strong horses and speed 

 was a secondary consideration. 



YATTENDON is by long odds the representative horse of Australia, among the 

 native product, at least. He was foaled in 1861 and died long before I got there. Mr. 

 Bruce Lowe described him to me as a dark brown, about fifteen hands, three inches 

 high at five years old. "He was decidedly narrow as a three-year-old, but had a splendid 

 back and loin and the broadest gaskins I ever saw under a horse," said Mr. Lowe. 

 "He continued to widen behind as he grew older and at six he was a model. Your 

 imported Leamington must have been a good deal such a looking horse behind the 

 saddle." 



,1 .- j The Colonel, ch. .,. ,8,5. | Kgfc Vf'Vefe^ WaX "- 



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c - , , , Q ( I Whalebone, br. h., iSo" 7 , by Waxy. 



Sir Hercules, br. h, 1826. } peH by w ^ nderer ; 



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I Paradigm, ch. m., 1819. 

 f Priam, b. h., 1827. 



. I Ally, b. m., 1818. 



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{ Partisan by Walton. 

 ( Bizarre by Peruvian. 



Emilius, b. h., 1820, by Orville. 

 Cressida by Whisky. 



Partisan by Walton. 

 Jest by Waxy. 



Pioneer by Whiskv-Prunella. 



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gj f Rome's Emigrant, br. h, j P" % 



Young Gohanna by 

 Ultima by Hollyhock. 



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*Bred in England. 



I have no detailed account of his performances, save that he won the Sydney Cup, 

 two miles, at four years old, with 122 pounds ; and that in the Great Metropolitan 

 Handicap, at five years old, with 124, he was beaten a length by Bylong with 98, cov- 

 ering the two miles in 3 137, then the fastest race yet run South of the Equator. In 

 the Melbourne Cup, run five weeks later, he carried 128 pounds, but ran unplaced, 

 the race being won by the Colonial-bred Tim Whiffler (son of New Warrior), Sea 

 Gull being second. She was by imported Fisherman (twice a winner of the Ascot Cup) 



