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to the soundness of constitution and limb for 
which Australians are famed 
The conditions under which these horses 
are bred tend to produce a sound and useful 
animal. The best English blood has been 
imported by Colonial breeders, who have 
the advantage of a warm and dry climate, 
and, as in America, vast ranges of grass land 
over which the horses feed 
The large droves of horses in Australia 
have an incentive to travel in the frequent 
scarcity of watering places; there are localities 
where at certain seasons the horses may be 
obliged to travel twenty miles to find the 
“water hole” or stream whereat they can 
quench their thirst ; and it is obvious that 
such extensive and frequent travels in search 
of water must have as a result continual 
change of pasture 
GERMAN ILORSES 
In the memorandum submitted by Major- 
General Beauchamp Walker, Military Attaché 
at Berlin, for the information of the Select 
Committee on Horse-Breeding in 1873, 
already referred to, we find the following 
remarks on the cavalry horses of Germany. 
General Walker quotes from a conversation 
