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alone would justify us in calling the English racehorse an 

 Anglo-Barb rather than an Anglo-Arab ; but, in fact, there 

 were other sources besides, from which many important families 

 spring — all of them, however, exotic and foreign. 



It seems to me, then, that I have sufficiently disproved 

 Admiral Eous and Abd-el-Kader's assertion that Barbs and 

 Arabs are the same thing — firstly, by the testimony of history ; 

 secondly, by common repute ; thirdly, by Youatt's description ; 

 fourthly, by the pages of the Stud Book; and, fifthly, by strong 

 and cogent argument. 



Now for a word on the subject of those horses which are 

 mentioned as Turks by their contemporaries, but which the 

 Admiral unhesitatingly informs us were, in fact, " pure Arabs." 

 I would ask, why were Mr. Plaice's White Turk, the Byerley 

 Turk, and numerous others, not to be of that race which their 

 name imports ? 



The Turcoman horses, coming from the districts beyond the 

 Oxus and Jaxartes, no doubt carried their riders, the Turks, to 

 Constantinople, and thence far on into Europe. Are we to sup- 

 pose that the Turks are Arabs, or Moors, or Egyptians ? They 

 were nothing of the sort, neither were their horses. Turcoman 

 horses, says Youatt, bred in the countries north-east of the 

 Caspian, are large — standing from fifteen to sixteen hands high. 

 So were most of the stallions that have come down to us under 

 the Stud Book name of Turks. Why, then, are we to 8U];)pose 

 that contemporaries should have been so far deceived as to be 

 entirely ignorant of what they were saying when they called one 

 horse a Turk, another a Persian, a third a Barb, and a fourth 

 an Arab ? It is far safer to accept their testimony than to 

 summarily dispose of it after a reckless and arbitrary fashion. 



Here I may mention that it was always my impression that 

 the Royal mares were imported from North Africa ; and Youatt 

 certainly says that they were Barbs and Turks, not Arabs. 



From these considerations I arrive at the following con- 

 clusions : — 



