92 The Arab Horse 



England, as a hunter and a sire of hunters. 

 He is about 15.2 and of immense bone, 

 measuring more than eight inches below 

 the knee. Imam also greatly distin- 

 guished himself in the hunting field with 

 the Heythorpe Hounds, calling forth 

 most laudatory notice in the London 

 sporting papers for his jumping, manners, 

 and endurance. At the Oxfordshire Show 

 he won a prize of £^0 in a jumping con- 

 test, where he cleared six feet. He was 

 also a fine horse in harness. In the 

 autumn of 1894 Miss Dillon drove him 

 to Cirencestor Fair, twenty-eight miles, 

 in two hours and thirty-five minutes, 

 hitched to a heavy cart, in which were 

 Miss Dillon, and a groom, besides saddles 

 and rugs. Imam returned by another 

 route to Charlbury, the same day, thirty- 

 three miles, in three hours and five 

 minutes. 



A notion of the service a good Arab 

 can perform may be gathered from the 

 record of Imam's doings in the eight days 

 beginning November 11, 1894: 



