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the European race, while the usually imported 

 horses are all of a second or third quality." 



We may be assured, for the reasons already 

 stated, that these prices are now never given 

 by those who buy Arab horses for the Indian 

 or English market. Very high prices are 

 sometimes given by a foreign sovereign or 

 wealthy foreign individual sending an agent 

 into the Desert for this special purpose, and 

 obtaining by these means horses very superior 

 to those which usually arrive here or in 

 India. 



There are here two conflicting opinions re- 

 specting the merits of Arab horses, and both 

 are erroneous. The first is, that no Arab 

 horse is worth having ; the second, that all are 

 good. There are to be found in certain 

 Eastern countries, by those who will seek 

 them, Arab horses capable of satisfying the 

 best judges ; but the great mass of them, 

 though good for hard work, are not agreeable 

 to ride. We want true, safe, and agreeable 

 action, while Arab horses having such are not 

 numerous even in the Desert. The natives of 

 those regions care, it seems, little about the 

 form, or even the safe action of their horses, 



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