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stay up to a mile and a half, a couple of Arabs — especially 

 if one or both be galloways, and are at the same time 

 good enough to run among the big ones, like what Chief- 

 tain, Caliph, Abdool Eayman, and Eex were — a fast 13.2 

 Arab, or country-bred pony, a half-miler for selling races, 

 and a good chaser, would form the 'beau ideccl of a useful 

 stable for up-country meetings. 



A good maiden is a real Eldorado, whether Australian, 

 Arab, or chaser; but they are particularly hard to get, 

 and uncertain to back, unless one has first-rate trying 

 tackle with which to test their powers. Maidens in 

 India take, to some extent, the place which two and 

 three-year-olds occupy in England, for many of the most 

 important races are confined to horses that have never 

 won during any previous season, irrespective of their age ; 

 though, of course, allowance of weight for it is always 

 given. 



Speaking generally, no weight within reason can bring 

 Arabs together with even second-rate Colonials. 



Eor the last thirty years we have not had a single 

 Cape horse that could hold his own against Australians. 

 As quite as high prices can be obtained for good horses 

 in South Africa as in India, it evidently w^ould not pay 

 to export them from the former to the latter country. 



Speaking from my own experience of South African 

 racing during the year 1892, I would say that the best 

 '' Cape " horses, like Prosecutor, for instance, although quite 

 as good as the average English horses imported, such as 

 Savile, Earl Godwin, or Vichy, are fully 7 lbs. inferior to 

 the English horses. Metal, Blanchland, and Presto, and 

 to the Australians, Kingcraft, Statesman, Myall King, 



