212 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



only carried his burden well, but carried it as though 

 it did not trouble him in the least.' 



Mr. Galvayne had noticed the weakness of the 

 'Pall Mall swells' for high horses, which I have 

 above alluded to. He writes that these gentlemen 

 had * a strong prejudice against the South African 

 horse on their arrival. . . . They saw simply a 

 rather mean-looking pony, with a long tail, instead 

 of a flash-looking English cob with no tail. But the 

 mean-looking pony never came back with a bad 

 report.' As at Omdurman, the ' no-tailed, flash- 

 looking English horse,' beautiful in the Park and 

 admired of damsels, was useless for work, and had 

 to be discarded in both cases for Arab or half-bred 

 Arab ponies. 



A writer, 'Merrigang,' speaking of some two 

 Arabs of the Lue Stud of Mr. Vincent Dowling, 

 New South Wales, says that when anybody talks 

 about Arab horses getting small stock again, he will 

 be able to mention these two colts in contradiction ; 

 there was a lot of character and massiveness 

 about them ; they were wonderfully docile, and 

 make him more infatuated with the Arab than 

 ever. 



The Australasiaits account of Messrs. Campbell 

 and Sons' parade (August lo, 1891) speaks of the 

 attention which breeders had been lately giving to 

 Arabs, and the same paper, in an answer to a corre- 

 spondent, says that it was a pity the breeding of 

 what they called in Europe * Anglo- Arab stallions ' — 



