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customers like Burnaby's wonderful Arab, which he 

 bought for ^5. 



C/iamde7^ssJourna/ (September, 1901, p. 609) says 

 that the Connemara ponies are greatly indebted to 

 the infusion of Arab blood, as also are the Orloff 

 trotters and the Achil pony. 



Mr. Wilfrid Blunt stated to his purchasers at his 

 sale at Crabbet Park, in July, 1901, that the British 

 Government had at last entered its name on the list 

 of his customers, that the Scotch Breeding Com- 

 mission had taken three of his best stallions to 

 improve the ponies of the Western Highlands, and 

 that the Government of India had decided on re- 

 organizing its military studs, and true Arab stallions 

 were to be used. 



The Register (August 14, 1901) states that at this 

 sale the Dutch Jockey Club of Java bought some 

 Arab stallions. 



Mr. C. B. Fisher states that he believes that the 

 Arab and the Timor are the only two pure breeds 

 there are. Where comes in the purity of the 

 boasted thoroughbred if this belief of one of the 

 most experienced and respected breeders of horses 

 in Australia is well founded ? 



The Australasian (July 6, 1901) states that the 

 breed of ponies which originally existed in Basuto- 

 land are supposed by the settlers to have been 

 brought thither by Arabs from the northern regions 

 of Africa, which is corroborated by a writer in the 

 South Australian Register of June 10, 1 901. on the 



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