I04 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



encounter. Some fell, others would only jump 

 what they thought proper, and not one passed the 

 judge's box ; and afterwards, when their owners 

 were protesting against the course, a battery 

 sergeant-major of the Hyderabad contingent, w^ho 

 happened to be present on his regimental horse — 

 an Arab Galloway — rode him over every obstacle. 

 This paragraph might have been added to the 

 instances mentioned in the chapter as to the 

 deterioration of the horse in Australia. 



Major-General Tweedie asserts his claim to 

 practical experience, as he had spent the best hours 

 of a long life in the saddle or on the coach-box, and 

 had marched, on horses of different breeds, from 

 Annesley Bay to Magdala, and from Peshawar to 

 Cabul, as well as over large parts of India, Persia, 

 and Arabia, and had also for several years been 

 Adjutant of a cavalry regiment mounted on Arabs. 

 Then he adds that, if he had not found many sterling 

 qualities in the Arabian, he would not have been so 

 attached to him ; and he asserts that in certain cir- 

 cumstances and for certain uses the Arabian horse 

 stands unrivalled. With all his faults, he says 

 that he is such a horse as can never be produced 

 again. 



He speaks of a certain Arab horse as ' an Eastern 

 evergreen,' in the possession of General and Mrs. 

 Turnbull, formerly of Calcutta, and then of Brighton, 

 which was brought to England eighteen years 

 before ; it was at least twenty-four years old, and to 



