Horses Wanted for India.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3262, 22 July 1889, Page 2

Horses Wanted for India.

(By Spectator,)

Since writing about a fortnight ago on this subject there are indications already that Australian buyers are at work getting horses for the Indian market, and it may iie that they will seo fit to extenflptheir operations to these parts, so that owners wanting to sell should bo prepared to do business, In Bydnoy on the 15th, Messrs William Inglig and Co., tho well kuown auctioneers, sold 2G upstanding colts and fillies for shipment to India at from £ll 10s to £26 per head. These aro prices that it would pay well enough to breed at. I wonder bow many of tho settlers up North have profited by tho them by buyerfl last year tofcave their horses in con dition, If they are not not in condition now it is late in the season to adviso graziers to try and get them so. Horses running' out are not likely to improve much at this tiw) of year unless put on thp very feed. I was in Messrs foyno and Go's yards last week and saw several nice colts offered and sold for very little money. They were got by Trump Card, i years old, broken to saddle and harness, and were of an excellent class for shipment/Jfit is all a mistako for people to sajphat we have no more horses than we require, The surplus horse stock of this country is much larger than is generally supposed, New Zoaland can dispose of a large number annually now, and could produce three times the number if breeders did but receive sufficient encouragement, to gp into biecijing, Last year I had sonio experienae of tjie buying business, and I may say that the best' prices were given for the progeny of half bred sires of thoroughbred sires which have beoq

mated with thoroughbred maies. This wus tho class most sought after and ft clbbs which will always lie wanted. Now that opposition bouts to tho Union Company aro being run to Australia, it sliouid not lie long beforo reducod freights tor horses follow, and then wo may look for Australian prizes. As tho freights nro now there is no margin, and no encouragement for people to embark in tho business of shipping.

A Tax on Stallions - At tho time tho Hawke's Bay A, and P. Association first mooted the question of placing a tax oil stallions, they passed a resolution in the following tormsThat bo sentto all tho A, and I. Moieties in tho Colony, urging them to join in recommending Ministers to introduce a Bill during tho session of Parliament, to t impose an annual feo of £lO upon all entire horses of three years old and

upwards after November 1, tho ago

jj[ horses to date from August 1 in «cach year, and that all such sums - received by any A, and P. Society be given as an annual premium to sire horses standing in tho district in which the tax is levied," Tho exact meaning of the words " sire horses" is not very ■ clear, but we (Eeferee) take the meaning of tho framcrs of the resolution to be that tho sums received are to be devoted to a prize for what may be at the annual show adjudged the best horse standing in tho district in which such show is held, From litest American to hand wcnotice that the 'pools' ni)<T totalisators in Yankee Land are taxed for the benefit of agricultural societies, and last year the societies derived from this source a sum reaching closo on'£lo,ooo, and, us the American Legislature have not deemed it too" premature '• to pass a law by which the money derived from such a source is to be distributuil among tho various Agricultural and Pastoral Associations as prizes for the best stud horses, tho owners of good rA stallions benefited accordingly. The *New Zealand Legislature might well take a leaf out of tho American's book in this respect, but they are hardly likely to be roused to action till the different New Zealand A. and P. Associations band themselves together for the encouragement of ucli a desorving object,