4 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



on the subject are really misleading and erroneous. 

 I do not blame them for this at all, but if some of 

 these racing gentlemen could have been put upon 

 their darling sprinters and turned out on the veldt 

 to face the Boers in the late war, they would have 

 altered their tune, as many sporting military officers, 

 to their terrible discomfiture, were obliged to do. 



In England, where there are large rival interests, 

 and libraries and magazines, and of the making of 

 books no end, the public has better opportunity for 

 learning the Arab side — if I may use the term — of 

 the question than we have here in Australia, where 

 there are few libraries, not much making of books, 

 and no large rival interests, so that practically only 

 one side of the question has been prominently 

 brought forward, or even heard of, except when 

 occasional writers in a newspaper have thought it 

 desirable to utter warnings. 



Mr. Percy Rowland, in his recent book ' The 

 New Nation,' comments on the lack of books in 

 Australia, and the lack of respect for learning, which 

 perhaps accounts for the lack of books. 



Even in England the racing gambler and the 

 bookmaker have had far too much influence in 

 forming the opinion of the nation, as will be seen 

 from what hereafter appears. 



I propose in this little compilation to show, on the 

 authority of some of the most experienced horsemen 

 in the world, extending over long years — indeed, I 

 may say long ages — that the sprinter is a huge mis- 



