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are long and of a good slope, and broad at the base. The 

 arms are long, lean, and muscular, deep at the elbow, which 

 is well developed. The knees are large, and square, and deep. 

 The trapezium or bone at the back of the knee is very promi- 

 nent. The legs are short, deep, and of fair sized bone ; the 

 tendons and ligaments large and well strung. The fetlock joint 

 is large and bold; the pasterns are long, large, sloping, very 

 elastic, and strong; the feet wide and open at the heels, and 

 not very high in the desert 1 ." 



FIG. 57. Black Arabian of Imam of Muscat. 



In height the Anazah horses are usually about 14 hands 

 3 inches, and the height hardly varies a hand 2 . 



It is of great importance to note (1) that the Keheilans are 

 the swiftest, and are generally bay, and that they have constantly 

 a white star or blaze on the face, and one or more white feet ; 

 the typical bay horses figured by Major-General Tweedie 3 are 

 all distinguished by such marks ; (2) that the Hamdani, which 

 are generally grey, are built more like English hunters than 

 race-horses ; (3) that the inferior strains not in Al Khamseh 

 show the largest and strongest horses, but not the swiftest; 



1 Op. cit. p. 334. 2 Op. cit. p. 343. 



3 Op. cit. Frontispiece, pp. 182, 258. 



