MILITARY HORSES
AUSTRALIA FALLS FROM GRACE.
(USITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COP-JRIGUT.) ■ (Received 19th July, 9 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. The annual report by Sir Hairy Chauvel, Inspector-General of the Military Forces, refers to the growing shortage of military horses-in'Australia: .He .says that the prospect of-Australia producing any quantity, of the class of horses that, .established..such, a record in the late war is so doubtfulthat he cous;ders the matter to be worthy of serious attention. The last remount order from India, for .4000 horses, took many months to (ill, all d thousands were rejected, chiefly on account of-bad conformation generally, and want of substance and bone. It is obvious that the standard of riding horse is deteriorating, and^that breeders are doing little to pre-
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 16, 19 July 1923, Page 7
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121MILITARY HORSES Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 16, 19 July 1923, Page 7
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