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of the Arab cross we have had ample proof in 

 Australia, because for endurance they had no equal. 



Dean C. Worcester, of Michigan, U.S.A., writes 

 of the Philippine ponies as having originated from 

 the Andalusian horse or Barb, and, being well 

 formed, sure-footed, and remarkably tough, making 

 excellent saddle-horses. 



Mr. George Flemming writes of the wonderful 

 endurance of the Tartar pony ; he gives one instance 

 of the Russian courier, who used to ride from Pekin 

 to Kiakta — 500 miles — in twelve days, rest two 

 days, and return in fifteen, and quotes a book by 

 the Emperor Kienloong, published in Paris in 1770, 

 translated by a Jesuit Father, alluding to those for 

 racing as having a swiftness beyond comparison. 

 These Tartar horses have been crossed again and 

 again with Arabs. 



Mr. Adye says that General Walker, Military 

 Attache to Berlin some years ago, when probably 

 English cavalry were better mounted than now, was 

 much exercised to account for the superior endurance 

 of the Prussian troop-horses over the English. He 

 was given as the chief reason the nearer affinity to 

 pure Arab blood. He says that, when favouring the 

 Arab, he was asked. Why go to the Arab when the 

 English thoroughbred was a perfected Arab ? To 

 which he replied that the Arab was much hardier, that 

 the thoroughbred was a more useful animal a hundred 

 years ago than he is now, and he expressed his 

 regret that the Arab was not properly appreciated 



