24 The Arab Horse 



"Weatherby's General Stud Book of 

 Thoroughbred Horses," the only recog- 

 nised organ of the English Jockey Club. 

 The makers of that Stud Book recognised 

 in the beginning, and to-day make the 

 specific statement in writing that* 'Native 

 Arabs, with the Barbs, are the source from 

 whence the race horse springs." 



The history of the Arab horse is not 

 merely the romantic tale of imaginative 

 writers, though poets have sung his praises, 

 artists have painted his graceful form on 

 canvas, and sculptors have made use of 

 him as their model. Job describes him 

 in words that could apply to no other 

 horse and the hordes from the frieze of 

 the Parthenon at Athens, the Elgin 

 Marbles now in the British Museum, could 

 have been modelled from none but 

 Arabians. 



It is fortunate, however, that before it 

 was too late, careful travellers, scholars 

 and horsemen, such as Major Roger 

 Upton and the Blunts, have visited the 

 land of the Arab horse and written in 



