28o REMARKS ON VARIOUS BREEDS OF HORSES. 



Army purposes, I think that better field artillery horses, and 

 especially field artillery wheelers, which require a strong 

 admixture of cart blood, can be obtained in England, 

 than in Australia. As a proof of deterioration in racing 

 "quality," I may mention that up to the present, the produce 

 of imported sires has, as a rule, been more successful on 

 the Australian turf than that of Colonial-bred sires, of which 

 the best has been Yattendon, whose two most distinguished 

 sons at the stud were Grand Flaneur and Chester, both out of 

 imported mares. The best Australasian sires have been 

 imported horses, such as Panic, Musket, Fisherman and St. 

 Albans. The same rule appears to hold good in America, if 

 we may judge by what the Spirit of the Times says in the 

 following extract : " The success of imported English sires 

 within the past twenty years, beginning with Leamington, 

 has certainly impressed many breeders with a belief in their 

 superiority. Glenelg, Australian, Bullet, King Ban, The 

 Ill-used, Great Tom, King Ernest, Bonnie Scotland, Rayon 

 d'Or, Prince Charlie, Phaeton, Eclipse, St. Blaise, etc., have 

 well-nigh driven the native stallions into exile. Virgil may 

 be said to have been the only stallion who was native bred 

 on both sides of his pedigree, and who has held his own 

 against the imported horses. Longfellow, Spendthrift, En- 

 quirer, Eolus, King Alfonso, and other successful native sires, 

 were the sons of imported horses. The English mares have 

 also succeeded in a great degree." 



As lonof as Australia and America have to obtain fresh 

 infusions of blood from England, to keep up the excellence 

 of their respective breeds of race-horses ; so long should no 

 jealousy, as regards horses, exist between the mother-country 

 and her offspring, who should regard their state of dependency 



