New Zealand Horses in Australia

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 107, 8 March 1892, Page 2

New Zealand Horses in Australia

New Zealand never had the excellence of her thorongbbred horses so well advertised as at the Victoria Autumn Meeting;, which concluded od Saturday. Nearly all the principal events were won by horses bred or owned in this Colony, and in one race, the Hurdle Race on the third day, New Zealanders occupied all the three places of honour. The most remarks able win was that of Jack's the Lad in the Steeplechase, in which the stake is the handsome douceur of 800 i soys, in addition to a sweepstake i his horse, who is a son of the Wellington Cup winner, Natator, less than a y«ar ago was running as a hack hurdler in the Manawatu and Rangitikei districts, and Ins friends discovering' his capabilities, have quietly > taken him over, and at the first time I of asking he has appropriated one of ■ the richest cross country events in 1 Victoria. The fact that in 1892 two ' New Zealand-bred horses—descendants of the mighty Musket — ran ft'r.*t [ and second for the Champion Stakes : of Australia, will also be borne in • mind by racehorse owners and stud 1 farm proprietors, and high as have 1 been the prices teoched by our blood 1 stock in the past, they are likely to ' be higher in the future. The results at the recent meeting at Feemington > point unmistakably to the conclusion • that New Zealand horses are the best > iv the Southern Hemisphere. It : must now be acknowledged that Carbine's excellence was no fortuitous ; exception) for his relatives have emui lated his exploits. — N,Z, Times. i .