STATUS OF THE ARAB HORSE 



the horse's foot is practically cut out and then, 

 with a didze, the hoof is made to fit the shoe, 

 which is a solid piece of oval steel, having a 

 small hole in the center. These shoes are 

 nailed on with big nails. 



Horses fed on this kind of food, some- 

 times going from twenty- four to forty- 

 eight hours without feed or water and still 

 able to gallop hour after hour, and day after 

 day, without collapse, must have great powers 

 of endurance. 



In disposition the Arab horses are gentle 

 and very affectionate. They will scratch their 

 heads and necks on you just as they would on 

 a hitching post. They seem to have no fear 

 of anything, not even of man. We did see 

 several instances where mares of the desert, 

 which had never seen white people before, ob- 

 jected to our coming close to them. But that 

 was not really fear. Some people believe that 

 the Arab horse is a wild ferocious animal ; that 

 he is almost untameable and that he is captured 

 on the desert with the greatest difficulty, but 

 the most ignorance is shown as to his color 

 In 1905, while exhibiting four stallions at the 

 Lew^is & Clark Exposition, in Portland, Ore- 

 gon, I had many opportunities of observing 



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