560 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE HORSE. 



This noble and useful anirnal is highly distinguished 

 tor docility and sagacity. His attachment to his mas- 

 ter is frequently both warm and dignified. He is 

 proud, and delights in gaudy trappings ; and it has 

 been remarked, that horses used in hearses often shake 

 their plumes with a supercilious air. On account 

 of the strength, valour, and utility of this animal, he 

 was formerly an object of adoration, having been w^or- 

 shipped by ancient kings. 



The true bred blood horse has performed a variety 

 of feats which no other class of his species can equal. 

 The English racer, as before observed, is derived from 

 Arabian progenitors. The following warrantry of the 

 pedigree of a horse, brought from Egypt by Colonel 

 Ainsley, is curious, and shows the scrupulosity and 

 precaution of the Arabian breeders. 



" In the name of God the merciful and compas- 

 sionate, and of Seed Mahommed, agent of the high 

 God, and of the companions of Mahommed and Jeru- 

 salem. Praised be the Lord, the omnipotent Creator. 

 This is a high bred horse, and its colt's tooth is here 

 in a bag, hung about his neck, with his pedigree, and 

 of undoubted authority, such as no infidel can refuse to 

 believe. He is the son of Rabbamy, out of the dam La- 

 hahdahah, and equal in power to his sire, of the tribe of 

 Zazahalah ; he is finely moulded, and made for run- 

 ning like an ostrich, and great in his stroke and his co- 

 ver. In the honours of relationship, he reckons Zalicah, 

 sire of Mahat, sire of Kellac, and the unique Alket, 

 sire of Manasseh, sire of Alsheh, father of the race 

 down to the famous horse, the sire of Lahalala. And 

 to him be ever abundance of green meat and corn, 



