I02 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



the cavalry of the Hyderabad contingent added to 

 the high reputation which it inherits 



He relates that an officer of the 3rd Lancers of 

 that contingent in Burmah kept ninety of his men 

 constantly on the move for nearly three months 

 without a single sore back, and with but one or two 

 slight girth-galls. After telling his readers what a 

 despiser of Arabs the late Mr. Richard Tattersall 

 was — naturally, for he was a racing man — the 

 General tells us that when a Nedji horse (which 

 he referred to as taken from the Wahabis) 

 arrived in London Mr. Tattersall would not even 

 go to look at him, but nevertheless, on accidentally 

 meeting him, the old man had to declare that he 

 was the finest blood horse of the size he had ever 

 seen. It would be difficult to get more telling 

 evidence. 



The General says that it would not be easy to 

 find another breed of horses which is so uniformly 

 distinguished by evenness of temper, gentleness, 

 and willingness, as the Arabian, and that fortitude 

 was as marked a characteristic of the breed as 

 frugality ; that the way in which the Arabian will 

 pass through strangles or catarrh and influenza 

 without losing his natural spirit and gaiety is one 

 of his characteristics ; that as a racer he is in- 

 domitable ; that heats are his forte ; that he will 

 run two or more races in one afternoon ; and that 

 many an Arab racer has continued year after year 

 to add to his laurels, in spite of a thickened suspen- 



