TOOKKOMAN noESE.] MODERN VETERINABY PRACTICE. [TunKisn nonsE. 



immediately on his being mounted, the curb 

 turned round in his mouth, and he ran away 

 with his rider the v?hole way down the Ghaut ; 

 but lucidly was, after two or three narrow 

 escapes, pulled up safe at Kolapoor. The last 

 horse, when within a couple of miles of home, 

 suddenly leapt off the road into the fields, 

 and alighting on bad ground, fell. No injury, 

 however, was sustained by either horse or 

 rider, who immediately remounted, and arrived 

 in Pauwell at twenty-eight minutes to nine 

 o'clock— thus winning the original match with 

 fifty-three minutes to spare. 



The horse which ran between Wargaon and 

 Carli, was the only one of those employed in 

 the match which had ever appeared on the 



turf. J 



The match was ridden with great nerve and 

 judgment throughout by Mr. Rawlinson, son 

 of Mr. Rawlinson, of Chadlington, Oxford- 

 shire ; and the horses were Arabs belonging to 

 the officers. 



THE TOORKOMAN HORSE. 

 Turkistan is that part of South Tartary 

 north-east of the Caspian Sea ; and has been 

 celebrated, from early times, for producing a 

 pure and very valuable breed of horses. They 

 are called Toorkomans ; and are said to be pre- 

 ferable even to the pure Persians for service. 

 They are large, standing from fifteen to sixteen 

 hands high; swift, and iuexhaustible under 

 fatif'ue. Seme of them have travelled 900 

 miles in eleven successive days. They, how- 

 ever, are somewhat too small in the barrel ; 

 too long on the legs ; occasionally ewe-necked, 

 and always have a head largely out of pro- 

 portion-, yet such are the good qualities of 

 the animals, that one of the pure blood is 

 worth two or three hundred pounds, even in 

 that country. 



The inhabitants of this country generally 

 lead the same sort of life as their ancestors, 

 being norcades, or wanderers. They dwell in 

 tents, which are removed from place to place 

 as their lands become exhausted and pasturage 

 fails to supply them with their necessities, or 

 as they themselves "increase and multiply," 

 and their flocks become too numerous; when, 

 like Abraham and Lot, they separate— the one 

 party going to the right, and the other to 

 the left. The flesh of the sheep and the horse 



forms their chief article of aubaistcnce ; for, aa 

 the poet says, the Tartar first rides his horse, 

 then eats him. To him the horse is, of all 

 animals, the most valuable. What the camel 

 is to the Arab, and the reindeer to the Lap- 

 lander, the horse is to him the prime source 

 of his wealth. 



Captain Eraser, in his journey to Khorassan, 

 thus relates the impression which these horsea 

 made on him : — " They are deficient in compact- 

 ness ; their bodies are long in proportion to their 

 bulk ; they are not well ribbed up ; they aro 

 long on the legs ; deficient in muscle ; falling 

 off below the knee ; narrow-chested ; long- 

 necked ; head large, uncouth, and seldom well 

 put on. Such was the impression I received 

 from the first of them, and it was not for somo 

 time that their superior valuable qualities were 

 apparent to me." 



Mr. John Lawrence says, that it is related, 

 on the authority of a certain Prussian count, 

 that a German prince having, with the utmost 

 care and expense, raised a most valuable breed 

 of horses from a son of the well-known English 

 racer, Morwick Ball, it was one of the first 

 imperial acts of Napoleon I. to honour the 

 proprietor with a military order to have tho 

 whole of them marched to Prance, which was 

 promptly executed. 



On the same authority it is stated, that an 

 Arabian horse was obtained in Germany (pro- 

 bably by the way of Turkey and Hungary), 

 which proved superior, for the beauty, strength, 

 and worth of the stock he produced, to any 

 which had been before known in that country. 

 The name of this famous stallion was Turk, 

 mainatti, a name in equal estimation, in Ger- 

 many, with that of the Godolphin Arabian in 

 England. The valuable stock of this horse 

 has spread over the country; and young 

 Turkmaiuatti, some time, ably supported tho 

 honour of his family. 



It is not unreasonable to suppose that 

 this horse was a native of the country we 

 have just been describing, instead of an 

 Arabian. It is, however, from Arabian Bures 

 that the Toorkomans trace their breed. 



THE TURKISH HORSE. 

 The Turkish horse is descended princi- 

 pally from the Arab, crossed by the Persian 

 and certain other bloods. The body however, 



