Arab Horses Outside of Arabia 7 



of Arab families — is either of pure desert 

 blood, or an Arab crossed on select Eng- 

 lish thoroughbred mares. Those bred 

 at Radautz range in freedom over the 

 wild Carpathian plateaux during the 

 summer, and one of these was the sire, 

 the little robber Hotsul mare the dam, of 

 Maresa, who carried his rider from Vienna 

 to Berlin, four hundred and twenty-five 

 miles, between Monday morning and the 

 following Thursday noon. 



Not only so, but the Prussian officer to 

 whom was awarded the gold medal for 

 having the horse which should finish the 

 journey in the best condition, Lieut. W. 

 von Gaffein, was mounted on a horse of 

 similar breeding, a brown gelding fifteen 

 hands high, bred by Count Potocki in 

 Galicia. Though Maresa made the jour- 

 ney in two or three hours less time, Von 

 Gaffein' s horse came through apparently 

 uninjured by the cruel test, whose severity 

 can be judged by the fact that of one 

 hundred and seventeen Prussian officers 

 to start, only seventy-one reached their 



