THE ENDURANCE OF HORSES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 87, 1 August 1876, Page 3

THE ENDURANCE OF HORSES.

LrrosijornUmti writing to the Met* i>f the !>th gives some iting items relative to the endurance rst'SLet ina- mention two or ustiinces that maybe verified by the nwu'ds of the places where the (pulict: troop horses) were stationed. [ think, Mr. E'vifie, T. M., a man nnmt have weigheit lost., rode a horse known as. Rody from north to Melbourne, IHO nutes, in jiy. iVCf. E'vice codvc, I b«lieve. ;thu night partly, as weflas the day. fuw years since, Trooptjfc Scanlon sspivtolied from JamieS'»n on a horse i us Punch, branded oV&r «f C, ivil l>y VVilUo'-. the- Wisp. TT'ie r star'tcil at fouv a.m., refwihed li'ld, twenty-live miles,, and theAco iiuio'h fruit and back, making a yof lOiMiiilew by nine p.m.same day." 'unpov usserts that his horse, a very no, was fresh and strong to the About three years since Trooper \wifc ' Whisky Walker's', near I'M. riding a horse known as it, ami lu'eil by Mr. 11. N. Simson. '« t<> liiirt'tiey's Creek via Mansfietd iiim'sun, vetnTOin,-; the same night "ii'soii, nearly 100' mites, passing ,v «e the ' Flovu'bag' hill—in itself a uy m work for any horse. The I'nseil to say th« few never showed fiitigut;!. What was of most int" nie in connection with these the study (>f their shape and I'hey had each splendid shoulder Hut, clean legs. no< tightening "in knee, great depth of chest, and imirturs. 'l'liese horses were none rs " for these great journeys. They a'bout U'»h. r Ish. 2in. r from- facts like these, breeders 'luttfi'mine to look for those shapes universally acknowledged to be "1 to endurance. Two of these i'l'i'u no more than half-bred. Mr. hovse must have been nearly fours, Ac.. Troofp.r."