CHAPTER VI 

 Some Last Words 



^O PERSON who reads the books 

 from which much of the infor- 

 mation conveyed in these pages has 

 been obtained can fail to be impressed 

 with the idea that the blood of Keheilet 

 Ajuz is a preponderating influence in the 

 best Arab horses. The animals pos- 

 sessed of this blood are not a separate 

 breed among Arabs — all pure Arabs are 

 of one breed. But, as we know of the 

 old Morgans in America, there were separ- 

 ate families, for example, Woodburys, 

 Giffords, Bulrushes, and all were Morgans, 

 so in Arab horses, there is a choice; and 

 of them all the descendants of Keheilet 

 Ajuz are the first. Upton says in ** Glean- 

 ings From the Desert" (p. 320): 



'* It appears to me that although there 

 are numerous offshoots from the Keheilet 



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