CHAPTER XI 



WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE BREEDING 



Other countries are setting us an example of what 

 horses we ought to use in order to breed from. The 

 report of the Inspector- General of horse-breeding 

 operations in France for 1899, in his list of stallions 

 serving that year, enumerates amongst others 105 

 Arabs, 260 Anglo-Arabs, and 164 Southern half- 

 breeds having a strong strain of Arab blood. 



Sir Walter Gilbey says that there is only one 

 Government stud-farm, at Pompadour, and that 

 there English thoroughbred Arabs and Anglo-Arab 

 horses only are bred. 



Hungary has two studs of half-bred Arab mares, 

 two studs of the ancient blood of Lippieza, which 

 is a mixture of Spanish and Arabian blood, Spanish 

 being largely Arabian. Colonel Horvath gives the 

 numbers: 136 half-blood Arabs, 113 Lippieza (which 

 are themselves half Arab). The stallions used 

 included pure Arabs or half-breeds. 



In Austria it is said, ' The Lippizenne horses have 

 marked character of their own, having been obtained 



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