OUR SADDLE-HORSES. 29 



CHAPTER III. 



Character of Arab horses and their fitness to restore the qualities 

 lost by our present race-horses. 



Most of the Arab horses which have of late 

 years come to this country, have not been of 

 the first class, being purchased on the coasts of 

 certain Eastern countries, by persons having 

 little acquaintance with horses beyond that of 

 profit and loss in buying and selling them. 

 Thus, while the Arab horses can only be pur- 

 chased in the Desert at high prices, no one 

 either in England or India will now give those 

 prices for any class of Arabs, seeing that they 

 have very little marketable value here since 

 discarded on our turf. Still, even under this 

 discouragement, an Arab horse now and then 

 arrives in this country, having much merit, and 



