ENGLISH VERSUS ANTIPODEAN THOROUGHBREDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 267, 12 November 1887, Page 10 (Supplement)

ENGLISH VERSUS ANTIPODEAN THOROUGHBREDS.

"Vanity Fair."] There has recently been some discussion in English sporting papers on the comparative merits of< our> own ■ racehorses and of their l cousins of Australian parentage.! , Colonists have claimed the* superiority, alleging that' the thhe test is the only true! one, ana. that the Australian thoroughbred must be* fleeter than ours because the time in which a mile and a half has beep done in' i Australia is shorter than that of any I. English Derby. Australians further. '<$%; ! toftjjtthat their whole system is superior toj that their- climate "not only favours the-early development of thoroughi bred stock, butisaisp favourable to steipm* i and wind. X$ this disoussion, New Zealand ! norges have been-; mentioned. Ajtbj i will, tberefpjpjiprobably be surpriseto i mpst of ypu? tp those who i. take W$ intelligent interest in one!! of England's that the thorough bred of New Zealand |l$ » at least as fast ap4 qpite as good- a st&yep i! sis t|e Australian. Only two mon*hs;agij>; two horg.es were sept over from the niiddie f island to Pw.for; # ie prizes. They w;erex Nelson, an aged horse* I whose sire it King. Col©; tvud l&axim, a twOTyear-qld son of Musket. Although Nelsop was beaten t?y a head for the Apfc \ tralian Cup— ■%. in which P 8 ! i carried top weight—he Was suppesaful JPJ several other, mippif the best Australian blood, and Maxta proved! himself a marvellous youngster, ; Wo may therefore safely qonsiderthehep horse? of th* three polonies—New SpuJ| Wales, Victoria, aud New\ Zealand—-to be . abouteqpah Now, thereisnp doubt that' tho Erigjilsh time record has been beaten; . over and over again an this side of the) world. Only last week t saw Maxun win tho Champagne Stakes of three-quarters of ft mile in exactly! lmin ISsep ; and although no doubt Maxim 'is afirst-classhorse,he cannot 0$ within 41b of Trident. The comparison :ovpr longer is sjsill more in favour ' of the colonies. Are, then, the Antipodean horses really faster than our own, and would; Ormonde, if exported, be a mere plater, unable to win more than an occasional " uppouritry" racp 1 Have the new CQ »nt.rJs| beaten us in horse-brpeding, as. in a agricultural products ? . .!• ■ - With, all .respect to the pabriobicopmipps; of colonial trainers and (weed#rs, f .l , ?*>■■ whether oven the unrivalled climate of Zealand and the a%tWHShiug epring pastel

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