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long list of races of Arabs in India, showing many 

 of them most remarkable speed, with defeats of many- 

 English horses, and endurance that the latter cannot 

 approach. One Arabian, Gray Leg, 14 hands 

 if inches, was never out of training for seven years, 

 from 1 86 1 to 1868, ran eighty times, and won fifty- 

 one races at all distances and under all weights. 

 Two Arabs, Crab and Oranmore, met for the 

 Bengal Cup heats, two miles, in 1845 I they had 

 previously run three or four well-contested races, 

 winning alternately. For the Bengal Cup they 

 ran five heats, the first won by Oranmore, second a 

 dead heat, third won by Crab, fourth a dead heat, 

 fifth won by Crab, with 8 stone 7 pounds each. 

 Next month they met again, and ran a dead heat ; 

 Oranmore won the deciding heat by a head. Surely, 

 says Captain Upton, this is something like the stuff 

 of which racehorses should be made ! 



Then, in answer to the argument put forth in order 

 to excuse the frequent defeat of English thorough- 

 breds by Arabs, that only second- or third-rate racers 

 have found their way to India, he asks : 'Will any 

 man be bold enough to say that the best Arabians 

 have ever appeared on an Indian racecourse, either ?' 

 On this, I observe that many authorities think that 

 it is a rare thing to get a pure Arab from Bombay. 

 Then Captain Upton shows that the /\rab's per- 

 formances on the Indian turf prove him to be the 

 better horse, because even w^hen vanquished he has 

 come out the next day, and day after day, and won, 



