78 THE HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



By actual measurement the neck is longer than the body, but it 

 is not necessary to point out the Stubbs absurdities, as they are 

 apparent to every eye. It was simply an awkward and dishonest 

 attempt to express in his form and shape such a pedigree as a 

 great racing sire should have had. In these two pictures we have 

 the real and the imaginary the honest and the dishonest. 



The search for this picture and then for its verification was a 

 labor of many years. I never expected to find the horse's origin, 

 but the discovery of his likeness seemed to be in the bounds of a 

 possibility that was finally realized. Murrier's picture, as a 

 mere work of art, is of no mean value. It contains within itself 

 undoubted evidence that it is a true picture of a horse, and it is 

 shown circumstantially that this horse was the great "unknown 

 and untraced founder" of the English race horse, with nothing 

 of the race horse in his appearance. 



The name of this horse has been a misnomer ever since the 

 day he fell into the hands of Lord Godolphin, and it has misled 

 a multitude of men to their financial hurt. Of late years the 

 more intelligent class of writers, instead of calling him an 

 "Arabian" call him a "Barb," but there is just as much pro- 

 priety in using one name as the other, and not a scintilla of 

 authority for using either. Whatever may have been his origin, 

 his marvelous structural combination of propelling power sup- 

 plied what was wanting in the English stock of his day, and gave 

 him success. Since then thousands of Arabians and Barbs have 

 been tried and all of them have failed. 



