'^1824. Sold 6 horses for 4000 Rixdollars. 

 2 horses for 1700 Rixdollars 

 1 horse for 850 Rixdollars 



1 horse for 800 Rixdollars 



2 horses for 1800 Rixdollars 

 21 horses for 5250 Rixdollars 

 36 horses for 14400 Rixdollars 



The amount of 36 horses previous to introduction of the Eng- 

 lish blood stallions=5400 Rixdollars." (1 Rixdollar= one shilling 

 and sixpence). 



William Proctor writes : — ' ' I purchased 8 thoroughbred mares 

 for £2500 also 3 thoroughbred stallions for £350, £400 and 4500 

 Rixdollars. My profits in horse-breedinf amounted to 100,000 Rix- 

 dollars and my profit from Yaffil (4500 Rds.) alone exceeded 29,000 

 Rixdollars independent to my having 20 Thoroughbred fillies got 

 by him out of my English mares. I have a colt from Yaffil for 

 which I frequently refused 3500 rixdollars." 



To Lord Charles is due the honor for opening up and develop- 

 ing this valuable branch of our farming. In 1816 he writes to the 

 Earl of Bathurst : ' ' Next to the export of wine I conceive the soil 

 most calculated for the export of horses and were a market once 

 rendered it might in a few years be carried to an extent quite un- 

 limited."^^ In the meantime he exerted himself in encouraging 

 horse-breeding in the Colony and in finding a good market. In 

 the following year he could write to the Secretary of State that he 

 is "on the eve of closing a bargain to export annually' 400 horses for 

 the Madras calvary exclusive of a proportion better horses for the 

 officers. This (as the freight will be paid here) will bring, I cal- 

 culate, about £24,000 per annum into the Colony for an article of 

 which, till I came, there was no export. ""^^ 



Lord Charles once having grasped the situation took the lead 

 himself and financed the first batch of 34 Thoroughbreds from Eng- 

 land and although he lost heavily, as will be shown, he persevered 

 until he left the land where every horse-breeder will remember him 

 with gratitude and admiration. 



Of the 34 horses imported 11 died at sea, 2 died after landing, 

 he gave one to Mr. Cloete, one remained unsold and 19 were sold for 



(65) Becords of Cape Colony, Vol. XVII. 1816. 



(66) Becords of Cape Colony, Vol. XVII. 1816. 



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