RE OUR EXPORTED HORSES.

NZ Truth, Issue 136, 25 January 1908, Page 2

RE OUR EXPORTED HORSES.

"Spreader" writes :— The English sporting press of late has. been tackling the question of imported horses, and the weekly edition of a leading journal, touching on this matter, practically New Zealand horses as a class c not reproduced their local form when raced m England ; but a curious fact m connection with most opinions one. reads is the absence of any set reason why such is 1"IlP C9.SC. Leaving Moifaa out of the question as an exception, and the fact of their being so few horses exported from

this country , it is quite reasonable to suggest that the horses so far sent iixnn here have not been judiciously selected as likely to stand iihe chang*. erf climate and conditions. Apologue has been purchased by «.n Indian buyer for sSIjSOO to race m ihe land of the rupee^ but he. was not bisught here, the thing is, .would he ever have been purchased here "for the same money and the same.reason, no matter .what his performances were. Any notoriety that our local horses have gained recently has been per medium of their deeds on the Australian turf, that is, from an acH vertising point of view. . Now, the climate of the Common^ Wealth is less akin to that of ; England lhau is our own climate, aiid as our horses have practically. demtiW strated their ability to cope with the "othersiders" m. both- shape p^d form, what possible reason can there be for eny difference m the form displayed by the horses of both countries, on the whole, iv England. The' gist of the whole matter lies m the fact of us not having sent the right stamp of horses to England. ' Tried handicap horses are the article that will give this cc- try [the advertise^, ment she badly needs just now m England. . ~ ■ '•••» The home payers are undoubtedly slating the New Zealand thoroughbreds, an impression- having got abroad that they do not . reproduce their best form .when expatriated. T'-is is Rure ''bunkum," and if the powers that be intend, to. sit idly by and; let such erroneous ideas. -/ta l^ robij-in the minds of the conservative) clans, at ■ Koine, well, they're a poor, lot. Nothing but a practical -demon-" stration of what our horses are capf able of accomplishing .'when exported Will reinstate them, m the eyes of the Brit' 'i public at their true worth. . Japan has broken but m a fresK. place, racing is all the go there now and the "Waler" is already m. evidence m the land of the monkey man. Why is it there are hb horses from this country there also ?" If reports don't lie there's thousands of pounds waiting m Japan for the purchase of horses annually j and we' can ptdduee for -quality stock equal to The best they'll ever buy, but nothing has been done,.; or is being done, to attract the notice of the horse-dealers' from that country. There : is . money m galore, all the time, all over. the world for good blood stock-, and not nearly as much finds its way, into this country as the quality, of our horses entitles us to. It's right up to ibe • Government to use some means of demonstrating to the Torld's ir "'ets what the New Zea^ land thoroughbred is, and is capable of. A few hundreds laid out judiciously this way would be the means of seeing it returned a thousandfold at very short order, and though the Government is "too serious an afr fair" to mix m with race horses,, .it should not be .• ..verse to seeing ia few thousands a. year. coming ih.to_.thfe country; m an honest' manner by means of, say, blood stock sales. -/