INDIAN TRADE IN HORSES.
" A Commipsioner " in the Melbourne Sportsman makes the following comment on tho exportation of their horses, which is applicable to this colony more than to Australia as it must be granted that New Zealand bred horses have proved the best south of the equator: — "Australians ought by this time to be impressed with the importance of the Indian trade in horses to the breeding industry. Without its stimulus our great studs could never have been efficiently maintained. A fair average standard value for their yearly produce is a necessity, and such standard the local demand is too circumscribed to assure. It is a supplement to the Indian that we look to the Engliph market to enhance the value of high-class horses, and enable breeders to extend operations. I confess to lack of sympathy with the lamentations of good people over the exportation of good horses. With our propitious climate and va^t pastures, we can breed sufficient to supply the whole world, and ixbat we want is the world's market, just as for our wheat, and wool, and butter, and metak. Good luck to foreign buyers, cay I."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2363, 8 June 1899, Page 36
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191INDIAN TRADE IN HORSES. Otago Witness, Issue 2363, 8 June 1899, Page 36
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