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and though perfectly sound on landing, yet were bad 

 Koarers a few months afterwards. Mr. Lambert observes 

 that these instances are only a few out of many, and are 

 somewhat remarkable, because Roaring in South African- 

 bred horses is very uncommon ; but he notes that size may 

 have something to do with this, as they are not more than 

 143 or 15 hands high, and in England Roaring is not 

 common in ponies. However this may be, it would appear 

 that, at least on arrival in Natal, the climate is not 

 favourable to the respiratory organs of imported English 

 horses. 



Mr. Hutcheon, Colonial 'S'eterinary Surgeon, Cape of 

 Good Hope, has furnished me with further evidence as to 

 the immunity of horses from this ailment in South Africa. 

 j\Ir. Robertson, a horse-breeder, in the Hantam district of 

 Colesberg division, writes : " I would not mind breeding 

 from the rankest Roarer you could give me. I do not 

 believe that Roaring is transmitted from the parents in this 

 part of the country, and I do not know of a single instance 

 of a Roarer having been bred here. I believe Brian Boru, 

 a horse imported in 1863, was a very bad Roarer ; after he 

 was here some time he could run two-mile races, and beat 

 anything in the country. I saw a good many of his stock, 

 but not one of them was affected in his wind. In our 

 district. Agar (imported) was as bad a Roarer as you could 

 get ; he could not win a hat in England. Six months after 

 he arrived he won a mile race at Cradock, in a large field 

 of horses, and got stock as sound as possible. I believe 

 "Woldman has gone wrong in his wind, probably the effect 

 of a dose of Strangles ; he is by Catalpa, out of a common 

 mare, and was a very sound horse when Van Zyl had him. . . . 

 Esther Stockwell makes a noise, but I am not in the least 

 afraid of her stock being unsound. With the exception of 

 Woldman, I don't know of a single case of a colonial-bred 

 thoroughbred Roarer, and he was very bad with Strangles 

 when I last saw him in Cape Town. Guiderius (imported) 



