2i6 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



endurance, should be so much more frequently 

 evinced by the smaller sort of horses than, com- 

 paratively speaking, the larger, yet that it is so, he 

 says, is an indisputable fact. This shows — some of 

 Mr. Day's other utterances notwithstanding — that 

 in breeding the modern English thoroughbred the 

 breeder has neglected the valuable useful qualities 

 for long-leggedness and sprinting. Indeed, so far 

 from being singular, that gameness and power of 

 endurance are more frequently evinced by the 

 smaller than the large horses, it would be singular 

 if it were otherwise, because neither gameness nor 

 endurance, in the true sense, is required for sprinters, 

 and those qualities have been bred out in favour of 

 long legs. 



The Vienna correspondent of the Afaz/ (Febru- 

 ary 7, 1902) says that the Hungarian horse has 

 special qualities of endurance, which he attributes 

 to his dash of Arab blood ; that it was a great 

 matter to have a certain strain of Arab blood, for 

 the Arab horse and the horse with Arab blood 

 would feed on indifferent forage which the English 

 horse would not look at it, and would retain 

 condition when the latter was reduced to a bag of 

 bones. 



Mr. G. M. Curr, in his book,* says ' that all that 

 he saw only led him the more decidedly to endorse 

 the opinions of those who spoke well of the Arab ; 



* 'Pure Saddle-Horses.' 



