"All the old sires wiU be found, speaking generally, to be equally full of Arab blood. 

 Mr. William Osborne, as I have mentioned, gives the names of the 173 Arab sires which, 

 he states, were introduced into England from the reign of James the First down 

 to the beginning of the nineteenth century. I have not troubled to take out the ped- 

 igrees of the stallions and mares in either of the above pedigrees which I have not 

 specially mentioned as being Arabs, but, as I have said, I think there can be little 

 doubt but that many of them will be found to be quite as much Arabian; and then 

 it must be remembered that the English running horse before the time of the Darley 

 Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian or Barb must have been largely Arab, 



"Web, Whalebone, Wolful, Wire and Whisky, the great family progeny of Waxy 

 and Penelope, bred about 1790, have sixty-eight strains, including thirty-two differ- 

 ent Arabs named. 



"Blacklock, of whom it has been said that no horse in England is a stayer who 

 has not got his blood, has forty-three strains of Arab blood. Touchstone, a com- 

 paratively recent horse, bred when racing men were beginning to drop the Arab blood, 

 has got twenty-one strains of recognized Arab blood, and Sir Peter fifty-nine strains 

 of Arab blood. Tramp has fifteen different Arabs mentioned. 



"I have above once or twice pointed out that Spanish horses had a good deal 

 of Arabian blood in them. All readers of history or travel, or of novels of the early 

 part of the nineteenth century, have learned this. We have many times in our lives 

 read of the celebrated Spanish Jennet. Until very recently, however, I have taken 

 the Jennet to mean a Spanish horse of a natural Spanish breed, but it will be seen 

 that the Jennet is not really a Spanish horse at all, but an Arabian domiciled in Spain. 



"The word is not Spanish ; it is derived from the Arab word Jeneta, a great Ber- 

 ber nation noted for the value of its cavalry. Goldsmith says : 'Next to the Barb, 

 travelers generally rank the Spanish Jenette.' In fact the Jennet was a Barb. It 

 was a foundation of fact and not a dream of fiction which led Sir Walter Scott, in 

 'The Talisman,' early in the nineteenth century, to depict Saladin on his Arab, at 

 the end of the twelfth century, riding rings around Kenneth of Scotland's huge charger. 

 That was a preliminary illustration of the folly of hugeness which Oliver Cromwell 

 realized and which was recognized at Omdurman, and which has since been brought 

 home to the nation by the Boers. Before the Boer war many did not believe in the 

 possibility of Saladin's achievement. De Wet has now taught them that it was 

 true by illustrating it with examples. 



"In the old romances which used to be the fashion before the latter half of the 

 nineteenth century, frequent reference is made to the Jennet. For instance, 

 Sir Walter Scott, in 'Ivanhoe,' speaks of a lay-brother leading for the use of Prior 

 Aymer one of the most handsome Spanish Jennets ever bred in Andalusia, which, he 

 says, 'merchants used at that time to import, with great trouble and risk, for the use 

 of persons of wealth and distinction,' and he describes the horses of the Eastern at- 

 tendants of Brian du Bois Guilbert as of Saracen origin, and consequently of Arabian 

 descent, with fine, slender limbs and small fetlocks, and as forming a marked con- 

 trast with the heavy Flanders horses for mounting the men-at-arms. Sir Walter 

 Scott knew better than most men in England what was the history and what was the 

 belief of the age about which he wrote (the end of the twelfth century), and would 

 not have been guilty of anachronism, and his references show the belief in the Arab 

 which existed at the period he refers to. The Crusaders were men of war — had 

 founded their belief on actual experience. They did not want horses to ride and 

 show off in Hyde Park. If the native breeds had been as good as the Jennet we 

 should not have heard so much of the latter, either in Spain or in England, nor 

 would they have brought them to England at a great trouble and risk. 



"The 'Imperial Dictionary' gives the same meaning of Jennet: *A small Span- 

 ish horse, properly Genet,' and gives a quotation from Prescott: 'They were mounted 

 a la gineta, that is, on the light jennet of Andalusia, a cross of the Arabian.' These 



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