146 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



Grant and used by Randolph Huntington in his creation 

 of the Clay Arabian. Most important of recent importa- 

 tions are those of Homer Davenport, the most conspicuous 

 individual of which is Haleb (Fig. 21). 



174 Description. The Barb is fourteen to fifteen 

 hands in height, short of body in proportion to length of 

 limb, his whole form being conducive to speed. The 

 head is beautifully proportioned, with a neat ear, broad, 

 full forehead, large, clear, prominent eye, flashing fire and 

 yet expressing intelligence, a deep jowl with open angle, 

 a trim muzzle and a nostril thin at the margin, capable of 

 great dilation and continually in play. The head is nicely 

 set on a rather long, high-crested neck, well cut-out in the 

 throttle and giving the head a lofty carriage; shoulders 

 well laid-in and sloping, well set-up at the withers ; deep, 

 well-arched rib; somewhat drooping croup, although the 

 tail is carried high ; straight hind-leg, long pasterns and 

 rather deep, narrow feet of the most superior texture of 

 horn. 



. The prevailing colors in Barbary are dark bay, brown, 

 chestnut, black and gray. Ridgeway concurs with other 

 authors in his conclusions that bay with some white mark- 

 ings, as a star or a blaze, together with white coronets, was 

 the original color of the pure Barb. He reasons that the 

 rigid course of selection which modern, scientific breeding 

 has established for the improvement of the race is, inciden- 

 tally, gradually eliminating all but bays and allied browns 

 and chestnuts, and indicates the final exclusion of all but 

 the bays. Statistics regarding the winners of the prin- 

 cipal racing events bear out this conclusion. Thus, as the 

 " blood tells," the bay color predominates. 



175. Use of the Barb. Some idea of the extent to 

 which the oriental blood has proved a potent factor in the 



