I20 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



Curr claims to have established and recapitulates, 

 which are as follows : 



' 4th. The Arab or Eastern horse is a saddle-horse 

 bred on sound axioms. 



' 5th. The Arab horse is a pure saddle-horse, 

 and not a racer ; his blood is pure. 



' 6th. No horse of any breed is so pure as the 

 Arab. 



' 7th. The thoroughbred of England is almost 

 entirely of Arab blood. So small has been his 

 foreign admixture that, practically, his blood may be 

 called Arab blood. . . . 



' 9th. Health, vigour of constitution, abstemious- 

 ness, stoutness, soundness, and longevity, are points 

 in which the Arab horse is without a rival. He 

 presents, as Youatt says, " the true combination of 

 speed and bottom. . . ." 



Mr. Curr says that he can find records of indi- 

 vidual English horses having greatly distinguished 

 themselves, but can find no instance of their having" 

 ever done so in a body, where they have been 

 collected in bodies, as in the cavalry service, all 

 testimonies seem to agree that their capabilities for 

 work are much below those of Eastern horses, and 

 that he can meet with no writer who has had personal 

 experience of each who does not pronounce in 

 favour of Eastern horses. 



' 14th. The saddle-horse of England is soft, un- 

 sound, and a failure. 



' 15th. Racing in England, so far from being the 



