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more resemble mules, cart-horses, or even Xewfound- 

 Lind dogs. 



In Australia, where racing has long been the favo- 

 rite amusement, and where great attention has been 

 paid to breeding, the proof of which is the excellent 

 time made on their courses, fairly rivaling the best 

 we have on record, I never heard but of one nag tliat 

 Imd gained a great reputation as a trotter. Now in 

 this colony a great number of Americans reside, and 

 they, doubtless to gratify their favorite taste if they 

 could have found the material, would liave had some 

 steppers wliose reputation would have reached the 

 parent country. Now it is a well-known fact that the 

 horse is not indigenous to Australia, but that it 

 was introduced from England, India, and the Cape — 

 all three so far from Barbary and Spain that it is ex- 

 tremely improbable that a native of the last-named 

 countries ever set foot upon her soil. In Australia 

 there have been no remarkable trotters. To Australia 

 I doubt if there has been any direct importation of 

 the Barb. Englishmen have long acknowledged the 

 excellence of their through-breds to be attributed to 

 the Arab cross ; at the same time, it must not be for- 

 gotten that many Barbs have been imported of which, 

 as I have previously stated, the celebrated sire, the 



