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Mootrub, and, again, that it is surer by far to breed 

 up from the beautiful little Exmoor mare with the 

 Mootrub cross on top. Further, that two very 

 beautiful youngsters were shown from Exmoor 

 dams and an Arab sire. He speaks of a beautiful 

 little pony as a typical Arab in miniature, a clear 

 proof of the Eastern ancestry of the Welsh moun- 

 tain pony. In ' The Breeders' Directory ' and in 

 the advertisements of the same book are several 

 announcements as to Arab sires. 



Mr. Winwood Reade says that Cyrene, in Northern 

 Africa, was ' famous for its Barbs, which won more 

 than one prize in the chariot-races of the Grecian 

 games.' Further on he says that the Berbers of the 

 Carthaginian army were a splendid Cossack cavalry. 



I give in Appendix II. the testimony of several 

 larcfe horse-breeders in the interior of Australia to 

 the excellence, docility, and endurance of Arab stock 

 got by pure stallions. 



Sir Edward Creasy, in his ' History of the Otto- 

 man Turks,' relates that when Mahomet II. heard 

 in 1 45 1 of the death of his father, Amurath II., 'he 

 instantly sprang on an Arab horse and galloped off 

 towards the shore of the Hellespont.' And he says 

 that the Sultan Amurath, when making in 1638 a 

 triumphal entry into Constantinople, 'rode a Nogai 

 charger, and was followed by seven led Arab 

 horses with jewelled caparisons.' Nogai is between 

 the Caspian and the Black Sea, in the country of 

 the Kirghiz, whose horses were partly Arab. 



