STATUS OF THE ARAB HORSE 



overian, French and German cavalry horse, not 

 to speak of some of the best types produced in 

 England. 



Is he to be condemned then simply because 

 the only things he shows are intelligence, 

 power, beauty, a distinct type of real poetic 

 individuality and honesty and because he lacks 

 extreme speed for the short distances which 

 gamblers of the present time have set, that they 

 may fleece the always unsuspecting public ? 



I have pressed the Arab horse into all kinds 

 of service, and, in his home on the desert, I 

 have seen him accomplish in the matter of 

 weight-carrying, tests that I would not have 

 believed he could have performed. In my 

 home I have seen him on the carriage working 

 as honestly, and as faithfully, as any horse that 

 was ever hitched, although his ancestors knew 

 no collars. I have seen two Arab stallions 

 driven together by a child, in safety. His ene- 

 mies will cry that he is small — that he is a pony, 

 but that the Arab horse, in his native country, 

 stands close to fourteen hands and two inches 

 I have found from the examination of hun- 

 dreds of them. As a matter of fact his size is 

 merely a question of the feed given him when 

 he is a colt, which is shown by the fact that 



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