COLONEL VALENTINE BAKER 71 



we pay no^heed to their description, and for purchase, judge 

 solely by looks and action. In fact, every horse imported 

 from the Gulf is entitled to run as an Arab in India, and 

 consequently that designation out there, is no distinguishing 



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Photo by\ 



[L. C. Gorodetzsky, Tzarskoe Selo. 



FIG. 1 8. An Orlof Trotter. 



mark of purity of blood. The last time I had the pleasure of 

 speaking to poor Colonel Valentine Baker, when he was in 

 Cairo, he fully agreed with me that the best Arabs were sent 

 to India : what then, I may ask, are the others? 



Colonel Ismailof in the catalogue of Russian horses which 



