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HORSE VALUES GAIN IN AUSTRALIA. The real reason why buyers for India go to England for short-distance horses is that the average sprinter iu England lias more pace than the Australian, and can be bought for less money than Australian owners will take for the kind of sprinter Indian buyers want. The fact is, prices have advanced more than fifty ier cent, with us during the last few years. A horse that was considered well sold at hB.t00 iu the nineties is now worth ,C00. Increased stakes and general prosperity have brought about, this change. Any horse that can win a race is a pavable property. Apart from what the A. J. C, V. R. V.. ami V. A. T. C. are loing for the best horses, there are now regular payable stakes to le won in South Australia, West Australia and Queensland. It is only 4 he second-class sprinter that can be obtained below Australian prices iu England. The Viceroys Cup horse must still come from Australia. Stayers of any class are few and far between iu England, and wlien found they are retained, or, at any rate, not sold except at continental or Argentine prices. A horse good enough to beat Highborn, Great Scott or Fritz-Grafton iu a Viceroys Cup would, we should say. cost at least 5.000 guineas in England. Vavasor, the last Sydney Cup w-inuer, probably cost .Mr. Apear alwut 1,500 guineas. Possibly we do not breed as many good hard stayers as wc did ln-fore the country was inundated with English sires and the old Colonial-bred horse was pushed into the background, but if time is a criterion the horse of today can gallop his two miles in nliout the same time as Carbine, and a good deal faster than the cracks of the seventies or eighties. There certainly does not seem much justification for The Asian beading an article "The Passing of the Australian Horse." Melbourne Australasian.
