MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



among the Gomussa tribe of the Sebaa Anezeh, 

 who pay better attention to their horses than 

 others, we found colts of two years standing 

 fifteen hands high. At the Circassian villages 

 on the Euphrates, where they take even better 

 care of their live stock than the Bedouins, we 

 found the Arab horse much advanced in size. 



When you see the method of his rearing in 

 the desert you come quickly to one conclusion. 

 Instead of being a small horse, he is, in reality, 

 the biggest horse known, when you consider 

 the hardships which he goes through from the 

 day he is born. From the first he is hobbled 

 from fore foot to hind foot, and from fore feet 

 and hind feet to pins driven in the ground. 

 In that way he spends his entire life when not 

 under the saddle. His feed consists of a nose- 

 bag full of dusty, dirty chaff and ground-up 

 wheat and barley straw which has been 

 threshed by the hoofs of cattle and donkeys 

 treading over it as wheat was threshed in the 

 days of Abraham. This dusty, dirty chaff is 

 all he ever gets in the way of hay; and that, 

 with a nosebag of barley, constitutes his daily 

 rations. 



I am speaking now of horses reared by the 

 best tribes. They are watered only once a day, 



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