Author: YARWOOD, A. T.
Title: Walers Australian Horses Abroad.
Description: First Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. xxiii, 226; numerous b/w photograph illustrations throughout text, map, appendicies, glossary abbreviations, notes bibliography, index; original cloth, spine of dustjacket a little faded; otherwise a fine copy. Carlton; Melbourne University Press; 1989. In Calcutta in 1846 the term 'Waler' was coined to describe a horse from New South Wales. Soon horses from every Australian colony were contesting prizes on the Indian turf and carrying dragons and troopers in the wild, disputed border regions of Queen Victoria's empire.

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