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AUSTRALIAN HORSES RETROGRADING. Year after year it is being aaaartcd with greater . insistence that there has been a gnat deterioration , in the quality of Australian horses, writes "Chiron" in the "Australasian." Rcoiuh. h,. continues. .[. B. Brewer staled that a sec, mil rate Knglish handi-rapnor would heal the heal of our horses over ail I courses. That may be true today, but tin name • could not have been said 111 the da s when Vattcil-don. Musket, and Chester Sourisned. We may not have been able t compete with the Kmriish horses • over abort curses, hut where stamina was requii 1 I our best was very little, if anv. inferior to Hi-Knglish bred horse. In those davs our horses wo,-.-also • noted for their particularly robust constitutions . and general hardiness, but there has been a marked I tailing off even in that reap tit. Beyond a doubt. our hois.s bare ihawa a deeMed uwprovesseat in regard to speed, but the extra puce has heeti gain d I only through u aacrUce of stoutness.
