228 LIKE A ''MORGAN" 



horse for a heavy-weight officer or a winter resident, may 

 be observed. There are many heavy French officers. 

 The Frenchman has a habit of putting on fat which is 

 quite noticeable, and, though small, he needs a weight- 

 carrier. There are some imported carriage pairs. But as 

 a rule, whether under saddle, or. in the cabs, or drawing 

 wagons, or harnessed to pleasure carriages, every city 

 horse bears some mark of the fine old blood. Either the 

 face or the throttle, or the clean leg and mule hoof, or the 

 flea-bitten gray a distinctive Arabian color will tell the 

 story. The impress is as strong as it is beautiful, and will 

 always remain. 



The Morocco and Algeria type of horse is rounder than 

 the type east of the Libyan desert ; he impresses you as 

 having a bigger barrel. Except for a few points which 

 are more distinguished, more blood -like in appearance 

 than our own native strains, and for the fact that he 

 stands with a bit more daylight under him as a rule, the 

 Barb is not unlike what we call a " Morgan/' But he lacks 

 the enormous girth of the latter, and for his inches will 

 not weigh more than three-quarters as much. Nor do I 

 think he can boast any more grit and capacity to do a dis- 

 tance and repeat ; while in speed, at any gait, I should 

 put him on a distinctly lower scale than the descendants 

 of old " Justin." He cannot run a heat race any better, 

 and he can rarely trot a four-minute gait. When it comes 

 to traction, for which the " Morgans " were always re- 

 markable animals, the Arabian is simply nowhere. 



