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EXAMPLES OF AUSTRALIAN BREEDING Bloodlines of Carbine Wallace Carlita and Cetigne Showing Contrasts of Notable Importance I Racing has been conducted so long in Australia that they now have there many thoroughbreds with native pedigrees running back through gener ¬ ations of Australian breeding with the necessary I accompaniment of an Australian Stud Book Of course their horses as do our own and all thor ¬ oughbreds outside of England go right back to England as their place of origin But they are rightly Australian horses now and their pedigrees frequently show strains unknown or scarce in England and this country and therefore of interest to students of breeding It is true that In recent years there have been so many Importations of stallions from England that the oldtime liardy staying and bigboned natiye lines have in good part been submerged but they still exist in part The pedigrees of Carbine nnd his son Wallace are illustrative of Australian breeding a quarter of a century back or more while those of Cetigrie and Carlita show the influences predominant at the present time timeCarbine Carbine was the master Australian race horse and a greater no land ever produced He was a wonder of speed stamina and gameness and ability to carry high weights successfully His victory at two miles in 328J4 in tjie Jklelbourne Cuj of 1890 with 145 pounds on his back is a racing feat wijhout precedent arid unmatched since Moreover he made good as a sire in Australia and England leaving Wallace to carry on his liiie in Australia and in England siring Spearmint to win the Epsbm Derby and Grand Prix de Paris and afterward to win high renown as a sire in his turn Wallace not so grand a charaetcr in racing as his daddy Carbine was nevertheless a capital race horse and a great stayer one of his victories being achieved in the Champion Stakes at three miles which he ran in 523 A but finished in a dead heat with Quiver a remarkable thing in a race at that distance He won the Victoria Derby Caul field Guineas Australian Jockey Club St Leger Sydney1 Cup and other highclass rates Better still when sent Into the stud he registered an immediate success and heads the Australian sire list In a number of years Carlita was a noble race mare not quite so good as Wakeful in her days or as Desert Gold more recently but not far away from it She could sprint fast stay far and carry weight with the best of them She was the winner of the per ¬ fectly desirable total of 89150 a matter which speaks for itself Her sire was a son of St Simon ahd on that side her pedigree is all modern Eng ¬ lish On her dams side It is native Australian of the best and through Grandmaster traces back to the wonderful horse of long ago Gladiateur Cetlgnc is still In racing and at latest pdviccs had 115785 to his credit which places him second to Carbine in the list of great money winning iiores of Australia He is a horse that has played his part nobly in the racing of the last few years and in his pedigree is three parts English his one fourth of Australian blood coming to lilm through libs graifdam Doris The pedigrees of these notable specimens of antipodean breeding are commended to thoughtful consideration
