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by Mr. Blount, which has caused so much controversy of late 

 years. Mr. Blount, who has largely imported from the best of the 

 desert blood, claims to acclimatise this breed, and make it take 

 advantage of our soil, in order to reproduce itself from genera- 

 tion to generation, till it attains that increased size which is 

 necessary for racing purposes. 



He proposes, when the produce of his mares arrives at the 

 English standard, to mate with the best of our thoroughbred 



Children of the Desert. 



stock ; and so imbued are many members of the Jockey Club 

 with this idea, that a 2oo/. prize will now be run for at New- 

 market, either annually or once in two years, by Eastern horses 

 reared in, or imported into, this country. The first race of this 

 description took place in July 1884, with the sole result of 

 proving that Admiral Tryon's horse Asil, by an Abeyan Sherak 

 horse, and bred in this country, was able to defeat the best 

 racehorse brought over from India, viz. Dictator, aged (who 



