Chapter IV. The Foundation Stallions of Australia. All told, there were forty-seven blood stallions imported into Australia between the beginning of things and the end of 1838, and, considering what state the world had been in, politically and socially, during a great part of that period, and remembering the weary length of the voyage, the risk of capture by the French, and all the dangers incident to a sea voyage of some twelve thousand miles in small vessels, ships which could only be described as cockleshells, we did not do so very badly after all. It is interesting, and valuable, too, to mark the chronological order of the advent of such of these as have left a name behind them, in spite of the great gulf of time and all the tremendous events which have taken place on the earth since their brief day. Blood Stallions of Note That Were Imported Between 1799 and 1838. 1799. Young Rockingham, by Rockingham. 1810. Hector, or Old Hector. 1817. The Governor. 1822. Stride, still alive through Princess, by Gratis from Roan Kit, by Stride out of a daughter of Camerton, from Cleodora, by Hector. 1824. Camerton. (No. 2.) Steeltrap (chestnut), by Scud—Prophetess. Sire of Jorrock’s dam. Satellite (a bay Arab); got great weight carriers and police horses. 1826. Buffalo (chestnut), by Fyldener—Roxana. (No. 13.) Peter Fin (bay), by Whalebone—Scotina. 1827. Skeleton (grey), by Master Robert—Drone’s dam. (No. 2.) 1828. Emigrant (Rous’) (brown), by Pioneer—Ringtail. (No. 4.) Theorem (chestnut), by Merlin—Pawn. (No. 1.) 1829. Toss (bay), by Bourbon—Tramp’s dam. (No. 3.) 1830. Romeo (chestnut), by Partisan—Vice. (No. 1.) 1831. Wanderer (bay), by Wanderer—Ogress. (No. 2.) 1832. Little John (bay), by Little John—Anna. (No. 11.) 1835. Gratis (bay), by Middleton—Lamia. (No. 42.) 1836. Dover (bay), by Patron—Maid of Kent. (No. 15.) 1837. Operator (chestnut), by Emilius—Worthless. (No. 11.) 1838. Lawson’s Emigrant (brown), by Tramp—dam by Blucher. Rubens (chestnut), by Priam—Sister to Portrait. 1838 or 9. Cap-a-pie (bay), by The Colonel—Sister to Cactus. (No. 5.) Emigrant was the king of them all. If ever you run out the pedigree of an Australian-bred horse of to-day, whose ancestors have dwelt for some generations in Australia, there crops up the name of Rous’ Emigrant. It forms a memorial, far more enduring than brass or iron, to that very gallant sailor and splendid judge of all things connected with the racehorse, the Hon. H. J. Rous, “The Admiral.”