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long list of races of Arabs in India, showing many 

 of them most remarkable speed, with defeats of many 

 English horses, and endurance that the latter cannot 

 approach. One Arabian, Gray Leg, 14 hands 

 if inches, was never out of training for seven years, 

 from 1 86 1 to 1868, ran eighty times, and won fifty- 

 one races at all distances and under all weights. 

 Two Arabs, Crab and Oranmore, met for the 

 Bengal Cup heats, two miles, in 1845 5 they had 

 previously run three or four well-contested races, 

 winning alternately. For the Bengal Cup they 

 ran five heats, the first won by Oranmore, second a 

 dead heat, third won by Crab, fourth a dead heat, 

 fifth won by Crab, with 8 stone 7 pounds each. 

 Next month they met again, and ran a dead heat ; 

 Oranmore won the deciding heat by a head. Surely, 

 says Captain Upton, this is something like the stuff 

 of which racehorses should be made ! 



Then, in answer to the argument put forth in order 

 to excuse the frequent defeat of English thorough- 

 breds by Arabs, that only second- or third-rate racers 

 have found their way to India, he asks : 'Will any 

 man be bold enough to say that the best Arabians 

 have ever appeared on an Indian racecourse, either ?' 

 On this, I observe that many authorities think that 

 it is a rare thing to get a pure Arab from Bombay. 

 Then Captain Upton shows that the Arab's per- 

 formances on the Indian turf prove him to be the 

 better horse, because even when vanquished he has 

 come out the next day, and day after day, and won, 



