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the Atlantic, and since that date Americans 
have been regular purchasers of breeding- 
stock in this country, taking some of our 
best sires 
Between the years 1897 and 1905, some 
230 stallions and 540 mares have left 
England for the United States. The names 
of several great sires among the former 
will occur to every student of Turf history. 
A proportion of the mares are covered 
by the most fashionable stallions in England 
before they leave our shores 
May it not be that the superiority of race- 
horses reared in America, if they be superior, 
is attributable to the advantages enjoyed by 
their breeders in possessing immense areas 
of pasturage in Kentucky and other States ? 
These pastures, thanks to their size, have 
never been staled or tainted by over-stocking, 
and to the freshness of their grazing is no 
doubt due the stamina and gameness that 
distinguish the horses reared thereon 
AUSTRALIAN IIORSES 
The popularity in India of the Australian 
horse, or * Waler,” is due not only to his 
superiority in size and weight-carrying power 
over Arabs and country-bred horses, but 
