Eastern horses are mostly spoken of as Arabian, The same dictionary also gives 

 the statement that the word 'genet' comes from the Berber tribe of Jeneta, who 

 supplied the Moorish Sultans of Grenada with a body of horse on which they placed 

 great reliance. The Moorish Sultans did not value horses for the mere power of 

 half-mile sprinting, nor place great reliance on them for that reason. They wanted 

 war horses for long and severe wars. 



"The 'New English Dictionary' has the same meaning and derivation, with sev- 

 eral examples, amongst which: '1463, item for a genett that my master lent hym 

 in the northe country.' 1674, Milton: 'The Emperor rides in the field with all his 

 nobility on Jennets and Txu-key horses.' • Prescott : 'Ferdinand and Isabella, royally 

 attired, rode on a Jennet.' Goldsmith's 'Natural History': 'Next to the 

 Barb travelers generally rank the Spanish Jenet, which was not unnatural if the 

 travelers were men of experience, because the Jennet was almost a Barb or Arab.' 

 We must therefore recognize that all the best of the horseflesh of England through- 

 out the entire history of England is admittedly Arab. 



"I venture to think that the main stock of the English thoroughbred is Arab 

 in a very much greater degree than racing men are willing to admit. 



"So many people have been led to think that the Arab blood in the English thor- 

 oughbred was a sprinkling only, that I am induced to enlarge on this. But, as I have 

 said, in reality there is now little else than Arab blood in most of our thoroughbreds, 

 except just enough of the 'old Adam' to spoil them." 



The above citations were given by Judge Boucaut concerning the origin and 

 use of the name of Jennet, which has a direct bearing on the origin and descent 

 of the Jennet, and I believe it is just as important toward the establishment of 

 the origin of the so-called Andalusian horse of Andalusia. 



The invasion and defeat of Spain by Arabians, Berbers and Moors some- 

 time near the year 711 must have been the means of the introduction of Arabian 

 and Barb horses into that country in great numbers. For history shows that 

 five thousand Arabs or Saracens routed the great Gothic army which was under 

 the leadership of Roderic, "the last of the Goths," after which Spain was more 

 or less occupied by Berbers, Arabians, Moors, Egyptians, Syrians, etc., for hun- 

 dreds of years, during which time Andalusia was entirely occupied for a long 

 period by Arabians, Berbers, etc. In the face of these facts it seems very evident 

 to me that the horses which were imported into England by William the Con- 

 queror (1066 to 1087) as well as by Roger de Bellesme and others, referred to in 

 history as Spanish horses and Spanish Jennets, were Arab and Barb mixtures. 

 I shall be pleased to learn of a more likely source from which Spain could have 

 obtained her original stock of steeds than Arabia and the Sahara. 



The Arabian and the Barb horses are in evidence no matter at what time or 

 place we search in past history; all evidence points to not only the great an- 

 tiquity of these two important races of horses, but also conclusively proves that 

 the blood cause for all greatness in past as well as present horse creations are 

 directly traceable to the Arabian. 



We submit the following in further support of Judge Boucaut's claim rela- 

 tive to the origin of the Spanish horse and Jennet, from the splendid authority, 

 John Lawrence, "The History and Delineation of the Horse in all His Varieties," 

 published 1809: 



"Agragas or Agrigentum, a town of ancient Sicily, was a mart for horses of high 



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