26o REMARKS ON VARIOUS BREEDS OF HORSES, 



against the imported horses. Longfellow, Spendthrift, 

 Enquirer, 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 long 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 

 on her, as one of her strongest claims on their affection and 

 support. 



Australasian race-horses at long distances are probably 

 as good as any horses in the world. The performance of 

 Carbine (a New Zealand son of Musket) in winning the 

 Melbourne Cup, two miles, with lo st. 5 lbs. up, compares 

 not unfavourably with the most brilliant victories of 

 Ormonde, Isonomy, or St. Gatien. In the Colonies there 

 are many smart racing ponies, like Glengary IL, Little 

 Wonder (New Zealand), Mayflower, and Jeannette ; but 

 they are not, as I have already remarked, as good as the 

 best in England and Ireland. 



The Australian race-horse. Bravo (Fig. 327), by Grand 

 Flaneur out of The Orphan, won the Melbourne Cup in 

 1889, when in receipt of 21 lbs. from Carbine. When 

 I took his photograph, he was about half-trained, and was 

 consequently somewhat lusty. To judge of him as he was 

 standing for his portrait, he appears to have been a trifle 

 longer in the body, than he was high at the withers, from 

 which fact we might infer that he was not a race-horse of 

 the highest class. He had good shoulders, long neck, short 

 back, and good depth at the centre of his back, and was 

 consequently a fine stayer. His hocks were not as straight 

 as those of Ormonde (Frontispiece), Persimmon (Fig. 322), 

 or St. Simon (Figs. 9 and 229). 



Romance (Fig. 270) is a handsome Australian horse of 

 the light or even middle weight hunter or charger type. 

 He won several races over hurdles and on the fiat in 



