84 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



price of ^500, although some authorities affirm that 

 the price was less. 



He then enumerates some Eastern horses — the 

 White Turk, the Helmsley Turk, the Morocco 

 Turk — which were introduced about that time, and 

 says that one so practically an expert in military 

 matters as the Protector himself had discovered that 

 mere bone and stature were no match against speed, 

 courage, and endurance — in other words, that the 

 big English horse was no match for the Arab. 

 The Protector was no sentimental gushing simpleton. 

 He anticipated the discovery made by Kipling's 

 * muddied oafs at the goals,' when the Boers laughed 

 at them and their horses, and took them prisoners 

 by thousands. 



Mr. William Day also quotes an authority show- 

 ing an account of the horses of Henry VHI. as 

 including Barbary horses, and says that the im- 

 portation of foreign horses continued during the 

 reign of Charles I., during the time of the Common- 

 wealth, and also during the respective reigns of 

 Charles H. and James 11., and these arrivals, it 

 appears, were mostly from Barbary or Turkey. 



Mr. William Day also states that the Arabian horse, 

 like the Turkish, had found its way into Spanish 

 territory, and that the Spanish horse was known in 

 England before the Arabian for improving our breed 

 of racehorses. I do not think that the latter state- 

 ment is quite accurate, because the merits of the 

 Arabian were known in England before horses came 



