I40 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



The Register, September 7, 1901, reminds the 

 public that the Arab horse stands cold as well as 

 heat, and will eat anything that is given to him ; that 

 on half-rations or less his brave heart carries him 

 through almost all imaginable difficulties ; that it is 

 difficult to overweight him, and he has always been 

 more appreciated by foreigners than by Englishmen 

 — of course because of sprinting. 



Professor Watson writes that the African horses 

 were smaller and shorter in the body than those bred 

 in Australia, and, as most of them were descendants 

 of the Arab stock, they are unrivalled for hard usage. 



At Waterloo the Emperor Napoleon was mounted 

 on Marengo, a beautiful litde Arab, only 14.2 

 hands, and when wounded Napoleon mounted his 

 white Arab mare Marie ; and in another sketch of 

 Napoleon it is stated that Marengo was brought 

 by Napoleon from Egypt in 1799, and ridden by him 

 at Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena, Wagram, in the 

 Russian Campaign, and at Waterloo, and that his 

 skeleton was still in the Royal United Service 

 Institution. 



The German Emperor at the army manoeuvres 

 in 1902 led the cavalry 'mounted on his Arab 

 charger.' He may be a poet, but he is no dreamy 

 simpleton. He is probably the hardest-headed man 

 in Europe. 



Lord Roberts at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee was 

 mounted on ' his celebrated Arab.' Lord Roberts 

 is not a drawing-room General, but, as stated by 



