From boyhood the proprietor3 of studs more or less extensive, I was quick to discern excellence4 in other people's favourites. My mind was stored, my imagination fired, besides, with tales of equestrian5 feats6, performed chiefly by Arab chiefs and other heroes of old-world romance. In a chronic7 state of expectancy8, I was always ready to do honour to the legendary9 steed, so rarely encountered, alas10! save in the bounteous11 realm of fiction.
When, therefore, I did fall across 'the courser of the poets,' or his simulacrum, I was prepared to secure him at a fancy price; holding that if I could recoup the outlay12 by selling a pair of average horses of my own breeding, the luxury of possessing a paragon13 would be cheaply purchased.
And would it not be? Albeit14 there are multitudes of people to whom one horse, save the mark, is much like another. For them, the highest joy, the transcendent sensation of being carried by 'the sweetest hack15 in the world,' exists not. But to him who recognises and appreciates the speed, the spirit, the smoothness, and the safety of the 'wonderful' hackney, there are few outdoor pleasures possessing similar flavour.
It is more than half a century, sad to relate, since I first 191took bridle16 in hand. During that time I have ridden races on 'the flat,' over 'the sticks,' and have backed for the first time a score or more of wholly-untried colts. I have tested hundreds of saddle-horses, over every variety of road, at all sorts of distances, in all ranges of climate, and after this extended experience I unhesitatingly pronounce Dermot, son of Cornborough, to be in nearly all respects the finest example of the blood hackney which I ever mounted. The 'sweetest,' etc., he certainly was. Almost too good for this wicked world.
The birth of this unrivalled steed was mainly due to one of the magnates of the earlier Victorian era, himself an example of the strangeness of that destiny which shapes our ends in life. A member of a family of financial aristocrats18, domiciled in London and Paris, with which capitals our friend was equally familiar, Mr. Adolphus Goldsmith scarcely dreamed in youth of 'colonial experience.'
But something went wrong with the finance arrangements of his near relatives. A crisis culminated19, and the necessity arose for Goldsmith (fils) applying himself to the stern realities of life. He had previously20 performed the strictly21 ornamental22 duties of a young man about town. But with a cool perception of the situation, characteristic of the man, and a steadfast24 determination to conquer adverse25 fate, the whilom élégant of the Bois de Boulogne and the Row looked over the map of the world, picked his colony, giving the pas to Victoria, the then fashionable El Dorado for younger sons and vauriens, converted the remnant of his fortune into letters of credit, and sailed for Port Phillip.
As an Englishman by birth and rearing as well as adoption26, Mr. Goldsmith had sported park hacks27 and ridden to hounds in his day. He possessed28 the Englishman's love for horses. Visions, therefore, arose of improving the breed in the new country which he was about to patronise, and incidentally devoting himself to agricultural pursuits.
Distrusting, however, his suitability for the necessary purchases and arrangements, he sensibly cast about for a coadjutor, fully29 instructed in bucolic30 lore31, to whom he might confide32 details.
He was successful beyond expectation, inasmuch as he induced Mr. Hatsell Garrard, a gentleman farmer from the midland counties (whose love of all genuine sport had, 192combined with a run of bad seasons, probably rendered rent-paying temporarily arduous), to accompany him as General Manager to Australia. And whoso recalls his fresh-coloured countenance33, his pleasant smile, his shrewd blue eye, his neat rig and bridle-hand, reproduces out of memory's storehouse the ideal yeoman from 'Merrie England.'
Mr. Garrard promptly34 demonstrated a knowledge of his business by purchasing Cornborough, son of Tramp, a grandson of the immortal35 Whalebone. For this sole achievement he deserves a statue, and in that Pantheon which future Victorians may rear for the founders36 of their prosperity and glory, the square-built, genuinely English figure of Mr. Garrard should find a place. What a responsibility was cast upon him when you come to think of it! How easily might he have chosen an equally blue-blooded, but leggy, rickety, pernicious weed, such as has so often been foisted37 upon unwary breeders.
Instead of which, he enriched us with the noble, whole-coloured, brown horse, choke-full of the best blood in England, of medium height, but perfect in symmetry, soundness, faultless in wind and limb, temper and courage, fated to be the long-remembered sire of racers, hacks, and harness horses of the highest class—to be honoured in life, regretted, ay, sincerely mourned, in death. For on his unexpected demise38, his disconsolate39 owner was discovered in such a state of prostration40 and grief that every one thought his wife must be dead, or, at any rate, some relative near and dear.
Truly, the squatter41 of the 'forties' was from one reason or another a man sui generis, with whom the present pastoral era furnishes few parallels. Mr. Goldsmith, in addition to other accomplishments42 (did he not challenge Charles Macknight to a bout23 at single-stick, duly fought out within the precincts of the Melbourne Club?) was a musical connoisseur43 and no mean performer. When the comfortable cottage at Trawalla was completed, albeit stone-paved and bark-roofed, the drawing-room contained a handsome piano, to which, after dinner, the proprietor mostly betook himself. There, in operatic reminiscences and compositions of impromptu44 merit, he was wont45 to wander from the realms of reality to a dreamworld of sweet sounds and brighter souvenirs. How one envied him the delicious distraction46!
193So the Trawalla estate had birth and beginning. It was a first-class 'run' in those simpler times; well watered, with picturesque47 alternations of hill and dale, plain and forest. The 'shepherded' sheep had unfailing pasture and ample range. There were no fences in those days, excepting around the horse-paddock.
Temptations to over-stocking were fewer, and chiefly—in default of boundary—took the form of an invasion of some neighbour's territory, a trespass48 which his shepherds were prompt to resent. Thus, the natural grasses were but moderately fed down, and, with the autumn rains unfailing in that district, assumed a richly verdurous garb49, scarcely so frequent in the wire-fenced decades. I do not recall the name of the deserving but less fortunate pioneer, the first or second occupant of this desirable holding, from whom Mr. Goldsmith purchased the 'right-of-run,' with probably a mere50 handful of stock. With cash in hand, he was doubtless enabled to make an advantageous51 purchase, and thus enter upon his predecessor's labours; once more, as it turned out, to place his foot on fortune's ladder.
Far from London and Paris, Ascot and Goodwood, as he found himself, the erstwhile man about town was not wholly debarred from congenial society. William Gottreaux, another musical enthusiast52, was at Lilaree; Hastings Cunningham at Mount Emu; Donald and Hamilton, Philip Russell, and other gentleman pioneers within an easy ride. He became a member of the Melbourne Club, then in Collins Street, upon the site of the Bank of Victoria. The late Sir Redmond Barry was his early and intimate friend. (I took charge of a small package of tobacco, on my homeward voyage, from the Judge, as it seems that particular brand was not procurable53 in Paris.) When things were settled at Trawalla and the stock manifestly improving, with Cornborough in a snug54 loose-box, and the sheep increasing fast, the owner of Trawalla found a reasonable amount of recreation, as comprised in frequent sojourns55 at the Melbourne Club, and the enjoyment56 of the metropolitan57 society of the day, quite compatible with the effective supervision58 of the station.
Thus, on the advancing tide of Victorian prosperity, then steadily59 sweeping60 onward61, unknown to us all, Trawalla and its owner were floated on to fortune—a gently gliding62, agreeable, 194and satisfactory process. The sheep multiplied, the fleece acquired name and repute—one couldn't grow bad wool in that country, however hard you might try. Cornborough became a peer of the Godolphin Arabian in all men's eyes, and the A.G. brand, on beeve-or horse-hide, an accredited63 symbol of excellence. A purchase of waste land at St. Kilda, made solely64, as he informed me, in order to qualify as a legislator, turned out a most profitable investment.
Swiftly the golden period arrived when, after the first years of doubt and uncertainty65, it became apparent to holders66 of station property that nothing prevented them from clearing out at a highly satisfactory price, and leaving the conflicting elements of dear labour, high prices, and a heterogeneous67 population, to settle themselves as best they might. Mr. Goldsmith, now free to return to Europe, seriously considered the claims of the Rue68 de Bellechasse, Faubourg St. Germain, as contrasted with Collins Street and the Melbourne Club.
It may be that the owner of Trawalla would have decided69 upon continuous occupation, with a view to founding an estate, if his sons, who visited Victoria in 1851, had exhibited any aptitude70 for the life of Australian country gentlemen. But Messrs. Edward and Alfred Goldsmith, who had been educated chiefly in Paris, when they visited their father in 1851, did not take kindly71 to his adopted country. Cultured, polished young men, yet decidedly more French than English, Parisians to their finger-nails in all their tastes and habitudes, they grieved and irritated their Australianised parent.
Chiefly they lacked the adventurous72 spirit which would have enabled them to behold73, mentally, the grand possibilities of a colonial possession. All their sympathies were with their lost Eden, the Paris which they had quitted. In Victoria they beheld74 nothing but the distasteful privations of a new country, hardly redeemed75 from primeval sauvagerie. The roads were rough, the beds hard, the cookery—'Ah, mon Dieu!—lamentable, indescribable.'
It was a good time to sell, and though the Trawalla estate of to-day represents a considerably77 larger sum than Mr. Simson gave for the run and stock, perhaps our old friend was not so far out when he decided to let well alone and retire upon a fair competency.
195To that end the stud was sentenced to sale and dispersion; many a descendant of the lamented78 Cornborough went to enrich the paddocks of friends and well-wishers. I think Mr. Hastings Cunningham bought the greater number of the brood mares and young stock, at an average rate per head.
Now, Dermot was the old gentleman's hack. (Was he old, or, perhaps, only about forty-five? We were decided then as to the time of life when decay of all the faculties80 was presumed to set in.) I many a time and oft admired the swell81, dark bay, striding along the South Yarra tracks with aristocratic elegance82, or, more becomingly arrayed, carrying a lady in the front of a joyous83 riding-party. His owner was un galant uomo, and the gentle yet spirited steed was always at the service of his lady friends.
So when, one day at the club, he suggested to me to buy Dermot—more than one lady's horse being required in our family at that time, and only fifty pounds named as the price—I promptly closed.
Dead and buried is he years agone; but I still recall, with memory's aid, the dark bay horse, blood-like, symmetrical, beauteous in form as aristocratic in bearing. 'Hasn't he the terrifyin' head on him?' queried85 an Irish sympathiser, somewhat incongruously, as he gazed with rapt air and admiring eyes at the tapering86 muzzle87, large, soft eyes, and Arab frontal.
Delicate, deer-like, strictly Eastern was the head referred to, beautifully set on a perfectly-arched neck, which again joined oblique88, truly perfect shoulders. Their mechanism89 must have been such, inasmuch as never did I know any living horse with such liberty of forehand action.
Walking or cantering down an incline, shut but your eyes, and you were unable to tell by bodily sensation whether you were on level ground or otherwise. He 'pulled up' in a way different from any other horse. Apparently90, he put out his legs, and, lo! you were again at a walk. No prop2, shake, or jar was perceptible. It was a magical transformation91. An invalid92 recovering from a fever could have ridden him a day's journey. No one could fall off him in fact.
He who had no peer was born
amid the green forest parks of Trawalla, at no great distance from Buninyong, or the historic goldfield of Ballarat.
196His sire, Cornborough, than whom no better horse ever left England, was a brown horse, like The Premier93 and Rory O'More; like them, middle-sized, symmetrical rather than powerful. Among the early cracks that owed their speed and courage to him were Cornet, Bessie Bedlam94, Beeswing, Ballarat, The Margravine (dam of Lord Clyde), with many others, now half forgotten. Cornet was, I think, the first of his progeny95 trained. He ran away with most of the two-year-old stakes of the day, to be ever after known as a fast horse and a good stayer. I remember his beating Macknight's St. George at Port Fairy, in a match for ￡100, and winning various other stakes and prizes. His half-sister, Mr. Austin's Bessie Bedlam, was one of the most beautiful race-horses ever saddled. I well remember her running in old days, and can see her now, stepping along daintily with her head up, like an antelope96. She won many a race, and was successful as a stud matron after turf triumphs were over. Beeswing was also good, but not equal to her. Ballarat was a great raking, handsome chestnut97 mare79, bred by Dick Scott, a stock-rider of Mr. Goldsmith's. She must have had a good turn of speed, inasmuch as she won the All-aged Stakes in Melbourne, as a three-year old. The Cornboroughs, like the Premiers98, were remarkable99 for their temperate100 dispositions101. They had abundance of courage, but no tendency to vice84 of any kind.
On his dam's side Dermot boasted Peter Fin17 (Imp) as grandsire, and other good running blood. His pedigree was incomplete, thus leaving him open to a suspicion of being not quite thoroughbred. But the stain—the 'blot102 on the scutcheon,' if such there was—showed neither by outward sign nor inward quality.
Then, as to paces. He walked magnificently, holding up his head in a lofty and dignified103 manner; his mouth of the lightest—velvet to any touch of bit—but withal firm. He had always been ridden with a double bridle, and showed no provincial104 distaste to bit and bridoon. If required to quicken his pace from a fast but true walk, he could adopt a rapid amble105, so causing any ordinary stepper to trot106 briskly. And then his canter—how shall I describe it? Springy, long-striding, yet floating, improving his speed at will to a hand-gallop if you merely shook the reins108, and as readily, smoothly109 subsiding110 at the lightest sustained pull.
197With such a horse under you it seemed as if one could go on for ever. Mile after mile fled away, and still there was no abatement111 in the wonderful living mechanism of which the spring and elasticity112 seemed exhaustless. The sensation was so exquisite113 that you dreaded114 to terminate it. When at length you drew rein107, it was, so to speak, with the tears in your eyes.
Then the safety of this miraculous115 performance. You were on a horse that never was known to shy or bolt, and that could not fall down. Nature had otherwise provided. With such a balance of forehand, he may have at rare intervals116 struck his hoof117 against root or stone, clod or other obstacle, but trip, blunder, fall—these were words and deeds wholly outside of his being. With legs of iron, and hoofs118 that matched them well, never once did I know Dermot to be lame76 during all the years of our acquaintance.
Fortunately for me, and for society generally, he was not quite fast enough for promotion119 to a racing120 stable. He was thus enabled to elude121 the turf dangers and so pass his life in a sphere where he was loved and respected as he deserved.
With regard to his stamina122. I rode him a distance of seventy miles one day, being anxious to get home, during the last ten miles of which he waltzed along with precisely123 the same air and manner as in the morning—with thirteen stone up, too. In addition to other qualities, he was an uncommonly124 good feeder: would clear his rack conscientiously125, and eat all the oats you would give him. I never knew him to be tired, or met any one that had heard of his being seen in that condition.
His graceful126, high-bred air, his large, mild eye and intelligent expression, warranted one in crediting him with the perfect temper which indeed he possessed. So temperate was he, that the lady whose palfrey he habitually127 was (as such, beyond all earthly competition) was in the habit of sending him along occasionally at top speed in company, confident in her ability to stop him whenever she had the inclination128.
He was utterly129 free from vice, either in the stable or out of it. But, if uniformly gentle, he was always gay and free—that most difficult combination to secure in a lady's horse. An angel enclosed in horse-hide, such was 'Dear Dermot.' The doctrine130 of metempsychosis alone can account for such a 198consensus of virtues—an equine prodigy131, a wonder and a miracle. Generations may roll by before such another hackney treads Australian turf. We are not of the school which decries132 the horses, the men also, of the present day. There are, there must be now, as good horses, as gallant133 youths, as ever new or old lands produced. But Dermot—may he rest in peace!—was a very exceptional composition. And I must be pardoned for doubting whether, as a high-caste saddle-horse, I shall ever again see his equal.
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