WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE BREEDING 237 



speed, to stop and twist and turn in full career 

 without mishap, and to keep this up for ten or 

 fifteen minutes at a stretch, a pony must have 

 plenty of staying power and good obliquely-laid 

 shoulders ; and these are not, as a rule, the most 

 conspicuous points in the modern sixteen-hand racing 

 machine.' 



Of course not. But they are conspicuous points 

 in the Arab, as I have shown. 



The writer adds that there are a few thorough- 

 bred horses to be found which combine the required 

 qualities in perfection, and that it is noteworthy that 

 the majority of those are considerably smaller than 

 the average blood horse, and that amongst those at 

 Moyns Park which have those required qualities was 

 Bashom, an Arab of the highest caste, bred in 

 Arabia by Ibn-Al-Raschid, Sheikh of the northern 

 branch of the Rohilla tribe, thus showing that in using 

 the word ' thoroughbred ' Arabs were included. 



Then it is stated that among the many wise 

 decisions which led to the final overthrow of the 

 Mahdi's power was the decree that the horses 

 provided to carry our avenging army over the last 

 stages of its march must be desert bred, and that 

 Bashom was one of the many Arabs which joined 

 the British forces for that purpose. On another 

 occasion Bashom had galloped fifty miles in one 

 afternoon with despatches. 



In the Park the writer also saw Gossip, the 

 original pony of the stud, a very Arab-looking 



