ENCOMIUMS ON THE ARAB TAKEN AT RANDOM 139 



breed from these mustangs, l\Ir. Hughes travelled 

 over a large part of the United States, and finally 

 found the horse he wanted in Nimrod, by a pure 

 Arab sire, Vimr. 



As showing the growing favour of the Arab, 

 the racing gentlemen notwithstanding, the Ladies' 

 Field, October 28, 1902, has an advertisement 

 that 'a perfectly-shaped child's pony 11.3 hands, 

 rising five, like a miniature Arab, jumps high,' 

 was for sale. A racing man would probably 

 laugh at this, but even supposing the man or 

 woman who inserted this advertisement had been 

 impressed by some drawing-room or fashionable 

 novel, none the less does it show that the present 

 general trend of opinion towards the Arab which 

 'Bruni' testifies to. It shows a belief that Arab 

 blood is a recommendation, that there is a grow- 

 ing recognition of the excellence of the breed, a 

 belief that it is the best that can be obtained in 

 horse-flesh, and breeders who want to sell will be 

 wise if they note it. If it be only a straw, it is the 

 sort of straw which shows the way the wind is blow- 

 ing. It demonstrates, in fact, that belief in the 

 Arab is ' sinking in.' Can anyone wonder at it 

 when he reads the facts collected in this little book ? 



' Faneargh,' in the Sydney Mail, writes that the 

 old stock-horse of the overlanders of the early 

 forties and fifties were largely bred from Arabs, 

 that these old horses were of wonderful stamina, and 

 their staying powers were marvellous. 



