2IO THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



India were, in common with English thorough- 

 breds, delicate and in need of constant coddling. 



In his book ' War-Horses, Present and Future,' 

 Mr. Sydney Galvayne says : ' The remount horse 

 should not be over 15 hands, thotigh frorn 14 to 

 \\\ is perhaps better with a big bit of quality.' Such 

 is the Arab. 



In an article in the Daily Telegraph, February i, 

 1902, on horses for South Africa, Mr. John Hill, of 

 Marshbrook House, Church Stretton, mentions his 

 experience with the ponies in his neighbourhood, 

 the largest of which were 1 2 hands 2 inches, some 

 typical mares averaging only 10 hands, which he 

 put to an Arab sire, and the result was a handsome, 

 compact, and hardy stock averaging 13 hands. He 

 verifies the statement that the race from which the 

 Cape horse started was undoubtedly that of the 

 Barbs and Gulf Arabs imported by the Dutch 

 East India Company at the end of the seventeenth 

 century ; and he advises that the new settlers in 

 South Africa should be encouraged to buy ranches, 

 and be given every facility to procure Arab 

 stallions. 



An article in the Spectator, July 19, 1902, says 

 that ' to breed polo ponies is a matter of careful 

 mating and judicious crossing between our ancient 

 native stock (the wild ponies of the moors) and 

 thoroughbreds or Arab blood.' Showing that to 

 breed from Arabs 'has money in it.' 



Of the Arab pony Mr. Sydney Galvayne writes 



