ARAB HORSES. 



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chasers, hunters and polo ponies, they are of great value 

 as light cavalry horses, for which special purpose they have 

 been bred for many hundreds of years. In this respect, 

 their courage, docility, great power of enduring long- 

 continued fatigue, and ability to subsist on rough herbage, 

 are qualities of pre-eminent importance. General Tweedie, 

 writmg in 1894, tells us that " fifty-three years ago. Captain 

 Home of the Horse Artihery undertook to ride his grey 



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Fig. 596. — Arab horse. 



[J. Uelton, Paris 



Arab horse, Jumping Jimmy, 400 miles in 5 days, and 

 accomplished the feat on the Bangalore race-course, before 

 crowds of spectators, with 3 hours and 5 minutes in hand. 

 Detailed accounts of this performance may be read in 

 the Bengal Sporting Magazine of 1840. The feature which 

 distinguishes it from the recent trials of equine endurance 

 in Germany is, that Jumping Jimmy showed no signs of 

 distress either during or after his exertions. At the end 

 of the final lap of 79 miles, 5 furlongs and 30 yards, which 



