BLOOD STOCK IN AMERICA.

Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 46

BLOOD STOCK IN AMERICA.

"Cute" Americans recognised that their equine blood was toe much tainted with "muctang," so they went abroad and bought sires and mares of guaranteed puruy. This fashion set in — so we ro-ad — about 30 years ago. "What has beer, the result? The great .American families of olden days have been gradually pushed out of the winning lists, and the produce of the purer ftallions and mares have come tippermost to ouch a degree that American sportsmen are now the best buyers of the purest stock England has. If (says the Sydney Mail) tho Yankees find it (necessary to come to Australia in search of a first-class e ire, America is certainly no place from which to draw the "regenerating fluid." It will take much money and a long time for America to catch up to Australia for quality of the blood horse, because in cur comparatively small community we have had the benefit of rlie brains and experience of mem who would have made their mark as breeders in the larger populations of England and America.

Svch men Zu the M-^&rs E. K. Cox, Jam * Wjwtc, J A. Snr; Biuc Lowe, Fiank Reynold-, and J°-inrs Wjl&on the elder would be a hard team to bat in any country, aaid it ia quc-tional<!e if c<ven America, with its millions of population, has c\e-r produced the- equal of any one of them. With the teachings of theso men before them, and with the natural advantages cf our country, it should bo a much, oac-ier matter for Australians to breed highcla?a horses than tho breeders in the older countries, and if our men had but tho leadi.i'3 i-cckcy chibs with them they would breed a better cla-s-- of horse than they do even now. Tl-o jockey clubs panc'or to the unthinking nuJ money grabbing two-year-old owner in->(c?d of endea\ our.iig to raise the -tanclard of the Au-tialiam hor B e and assist the brood era to s-uppiy the great markets of the world with sound horses, who<=e sap ha^ not been taken oat or their form- twiist'"d by the- unnatural =tiams they are called upon to make before they are properly formed.