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need not be subjected to the influences which have 

 impaired the quahties of the old. 



If the experiment upon which Sir James Boucaut 

 is engaged can succeed anywhere, it will be in 

 Australia, where all conditions are so favourable ; 

 and, having regard to the debt we owe the Arab 

 horse in the past, it is to be earnestly hoped that 

 the author's endeavour to open the eyes of his 

 readers to the merits of the breed may induce others 

 to follow his example, and help to restore in the 

 horse of the future the characteristics of our horses 

 of an earlier age. 



Elsenham Hall, Essex, 

 1905. 



