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good training ; and, by attending to the following, 

 you may accomplish your end, and be able to 

 cope with your neighbours ; but if you enter on 

 your sporting career, intending to train all horses 

 in the same manner, without any regard to their 

 peculiar constitutions and temperaments, their 

 likings and dislikings, thinking the whole secret 

 consists in making them thin, you will generally 

 succeed, to your heart's content, in bringing down 

 all the flesh and fat off the body, depositing it, 



caste Arab horses and mares were now to be sent to our cold 

 climate, and as judiciously crossed, and well taken care of, for 

 the next fifty years, as the race now in existence have been 

 from sire to son during the last half-century, they might equal 

 in size, and surpass in speed, all those of the present day. 



When last in England, my opinion was asked of a late 

 importation from the Bomb Proof, price twelve hundred rupees, 

 and if I thought he was a real Arab. I replied, to my confiding 

 querist, I thought he was a real Arab, quite as much a real 

 Arab as a cathammed horse he had purchased of his baker a 

 few days before was a real English horse : and I recommended 

 that he should embark that to his munificent donor in India 

 in return, who would then have a real English horse, and a 

 most equitable exchange, too. An Arab, to be worth accept- 

 ance at home, must either be very showy and handsome, an- 

 swering for a lady's park-horse, or else have proved his blood 

 by the very best perfomiance, displaying besides the cardinail 

 points of a good stallion ; for the very best performance of ah 

 Arab, in India, would be very third-rate at Newmarket. A 

 few of the genuine caste are annually imported to Bombay, 

 but three parts to seven-eighths bred are what chiefly fall to 

 our lot. 



