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condition when the latter was reduced to a bag of 

 bones. The Hungarian horse had extremely hard 

 bone, like the Arab, and consequently was seldom 

 troubled with spavin, which was but too common 

 among our own horses, whose bones are softer. 



The Windsor Magazine, January, 1903, has it that 

 the horses which are common to Hungary and 

 Roumania are famous for their extraordinary 

 strength, pluck, and sure-footedness. They both 

 have a strong Arab dash. 



In the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' art. ' Arabia,' 

 it is said that trained European racers would easily 

 distance a thoroughbred Arab on any ordinary 

 course, but for perfection of form, symmetry of 

 limbs, cleanness of muscle, beauty of appearance, 

 for endurance of fatigue, for docility, and for speed 

 maintained for distances so long as to appear 

 incredible, the Nedjie horse acknowledges no equal. 



Mr. Harold Leeney, M.R.C.V.S., in the Live 

 Stock Journal Almanack for 1 898, writing a scien- 

 tific article on the castration of horses, showing 

 its desirability, says that if exception — i.e., non- 

 castration — could be made to any particular breed, 

 he would say that the Arab was the one with fewest 

 objections as an entire. No other reference is made 

 to the Arab in the article, and this incidental 

 reference of course testifies in an unusual manner to 

 his docility. It is said that if they have never been 

 at the stud they are perfectly quiet ; and I believe 

 that they are not usually gelded in Egypt. I often 



