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THE CLASS OF AUSTRALIAN HORSES. Chiron, the writer f stud Notes in the Ketboarne Australasian, is struck by the repeated successes ol 1 Kngllsh horses in big Aastralian races during the e past ten s. __ons and again raises the question as to whether there has Keen any deterioration In 1 lastrallan race Uorses •■! late years. Iln- fact that 1 v.. main horse* that wive lerate performers in 1 Knglaad have been successful in Australia seems io point io tie conclusion that Australian horses are nol ss good i Ussy were twenty rears ago, before the sdvenl of so many st. Simon horses, i Btrain which h - Ibinks has d • bo good in thai country. "The latest big winner Is the imported hois.-. Fortafix, which won the I. Mb Two Thousand on Saturday at Belmont Park, and be was Followed home by another Imported horse, Lily veil, which won the Boulder Cup two or three n hs ago. in England Kortatix was I selliui plater, and a mod prate one nt that, despite his aristocratic breedinx. . II.. was bred by the bite Duke ol Devonshire, and 1 wa?; ■■ Id as a yearling to sn William oop i ;■ I i ,5UU. on iii. same da] Mr. Iranris Poj gave ■ : 140 lor S,n,ul IiiiilT Irl li li did ii. i take Sir William I mpei l..n- Ui liml , that I "i latin was nol mii.ii i it. : .ii be wa- content I" lei bin go Io Mi It Wright ii s:;s.,. lb- won :i selling raee al Brluh i. .ii .i- .1 1 1 1 1 « • year-old, and wa Is Might in l -i ■" , v., tin : . i in could not 1 1 in. !.■•!! Impressive li, nei lime i.« ran i; was in llx uominatioa of h t at son, on,- of iii pi. sent o ners, "Bilhei Ihe West Austra ian boi e are liad in II the extreme m Fort a fix has made a remarfcabb itti prpveineiil in this part id the world, but the chance are the formet is the css. On turning back to ihe , RngHsh bloodstiH-k sales I i.und I hi I I be boi si-v thai bavi ilone well In tusli i is i-osi .i great 1 de.il In I i. I ind Comedj Klug. ■•! course Wa booghl with bis dam for .2Ti l lull the 1 1 i *i. . - an l.e would bavi brought a bin price is .i vearlins bad in- been old In Knglaml. lie v i~ . bighela -hoi .• Sol ol be Marsh w,.~ bought mil of sell in ; race In W. Kelso for 12.750 mil be was I In most expensive of tlie English-bred horses imported 1 U this country ol late rears Mr. Xoiin Brown - cured Sir I-oic as a three ve.M ..id at suction for ,,- Sd.KHt ami won the Put art t J Stakes. Newmarkel I Randicap and Doncaster Handicap iv nh him"
