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About the Australian (Waler) Breed
.There are few more famous horses than the
Waler, the national horse of Australia, though he is not often
seen in England. The term “Waler” is a comprehensive
national term covering a variety of types, and an abbreviation
of New South Wales, the state where the Australian horse was
first imported and bred.
There was no indigenous native horse in Australia, and the first
arrivals from the outer world came in 1795, from the Cape and
Chile. So the foundation stock of the Waler was of Dutch and
Spanish origin, with the oriental horses the Arab and the Barb
as the ultimate ancestors. These original animals were small,
and as the settlers had great need for riding horses and wanted
the best, pure Arab and English Thoroughbred stallions were
imported and used on good mares of riding type. The country,
with its equable climate, unlimited range, and wide choice of
pasturage, was eminently suitable for horse breeding, which
was carried out with great care; and the Australian horse developed
and flourished. It has been asserted, with some justification,
that between Waterloo and the Crimea Australia possessed probably
the best saddle horse in the world, and during that period began
the supply of cavalry and artillery troop horses to India. Racing,
which first appeared in Australia in 1826, further helped to
establish the Australian horse, the breeding of which has spread
in the natural course of time from New South Wales to the states
of Victoria and Queensland; but the name “Waler”
still applied to them all.
The discovery of gold in 1851 very nearly ruined the Waler.
The wholesale desertion of the ranges for the gold fields led
to the neglect of the stock, which strayed and became half wild,
breeding indiscriminately and haphazardly, with the result that
the breed seriously deteriorated. Nor did the admixture of carthorse
blood that took place about that time tend to help the saddle
horse. By 1880 New South Wales was over-stocked with under-bred
and valueless horses, from which state of affairs it took a
long time to recover. However, by one of those famous whirligigs
of time, the gold plutocrats found racing and horses good things
to spend their money on, and interest in both revived, thought
the resuscitation of the stock was retarded by the popularity
of short sprint races and by racing the youngsters too soon.
Still, the revival did take place, especially at the beginning
of the 20th century.
For a period after the Second World War there was again a danger
that this breed would become extinct, but recently there has
been a concerted move in favour of reviving interest in the
national horse of Australia. It now seems that alien blood in
the form of heavy draught mares, which had been added from time
to time, is to be rigidly excluded, and that the Waler of the
future is to live up to the high reputation it previously enjoyed
at the beginning of the 20th century when it was at its peak
as a riding horse of most excellent attainments.
The Waler has always been noted for jumping in his own country,
high-jumping competitions being a speciality at all shows. Another
activity at which he can at times excel is buckjumping, equalling
in this respect, in the opinion of many, that better known exponent
the American broncho. By the same token the Australian range
rider takes his place among the world’s finest horsemen.
Australian horses are all shapes and sizes, including besides
the Waler, a draught-horse breed developed from three English
strains – Clydesdale, Shire and Suffolk Punch –
and the ponies of Western Australia, from stock brought from
Timor. This Timor stock must have been representative of the
Java horse from the islands of Java and Sumatra.
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Arab
| Akhal-Teke
| Albino
| American
Quarter | American
Saddle | Andalusian
| Anglo-Arab
| Anglo-Arab
in France | Anglo-Kabarda
| Anglo-Norman
| Appaloosa
| Ardennes
| Australian
(Waler) | Austrian
| Balearic
| Barb
| Basuto
| Batak/Deli
| Beberbeck
| Beetwk
| Boulonnais
| Brabancon
| Breton
| Budyonovsky
| Burmese
(Shan) | Camargue
| Caspian
| Charollais
Half-bred | Cleveland
Bay | Clydesdale
| Cob
(Riding) | Connemara
| Criollo
| Dales
| Danish
| Danubian
| Dartmoor
| Donsky
| Dutch
Draught | East
Bulgarian | Exmoor
| Falabella
| Fell
| Flemish
| French
Thoroughbred | Friesian
| Galiceno
| Gelderland
| Gidran
and Nonius | Gothland
| Groningen
| Gudbrandsdal
| Hack
| Hackney
Horse | Hackney
Pony | Hafflinger
| Hanoverian
| Highland
| Holstein
| Hungarian
Shagya | Hunter
| Iceland
| Iomud
| Italian
| Jutland
| Kabarda
| Karabair
and Lokai | Karabakh
| Kathiawari
and Marwari | Klepper
| Knabstrup
| Konik
| Latvian
| Limousin
(Half-bred) | Lipizzaner
| Manipur
| Mecklenburg
| Mongolian
| Morgan
| Mustang
| New
Forest | Norwegian-Fjord
| Oldenburg
| Orlov
| Palomino
| Percheron
| Persian
| Pinto
| Pleven
| Polish
Arab | Polish
Half-bred | Polish
Thoroughbred | Rhenish
| Russian
Saddle | Russian
Steppe | Russian
Thoroughbred | Scandinavian
| Schleswig
| Shetland
| Shire
| Spanish
| Spiti
and Bhutia | Standard
Bred | Strelets
| Suffolk
| Swedish
| Tarpan
| Tennessee
Walking Horse | Tersky
| Thoroughbred
| Timor
Pony | Trakehner
| Turk
| Ukrainian
| Vendéen-Charentais
Half-bred | Viatka
| Welsh
Cob | Welsh
Mountain and Welsh Pony | Zeeland
Horse | Zemaitukas
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