CHAPTER X 



WHAT SORT OF HORSE TO BREED 



There are three classes of authorities which I shall 

 now cite as to the sort of horse which ought to be 

 bred : First, those who specially prefer and name 

 Arabs, which is the most numerous and an increasing 

 class ; secondly, those (and these are fewer) who, 

 without mentioning Arabs, describe the sort of horse 

 that is wanted, and whose descriptions are only com- 

 pletely answered by Arabs ; and, thirdly, those who 

 warn you what not to breed, and whose warnings 

 apply to just the sort of horse which the Arab is 

 not. Whichever way it may be taken, all modern 

 authority points almost without exception to the 

 Arab. Of course I am not referring in any way to 

 heavy draft or carriage horses, although I believe 

 nothing can equal the Arab for light buggy horses 

 in Australia. 



General Tweedie says of the Arabs obtained for 

 the Indian Government : ' It is now considered pre- 

 ferable to select in India Arabian, or oftener, it may 

 be feared, Iraki stallions, from the strings of the 

 jambages (horse-dealers), and it is from this source 



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