undertook in 1841 to ride his grey Arab, 

 " Jumping Jimmy," 400 miles in five days 

 on the Bangalore race- course ; and accom- 

 plished his task with three hours and five 

 minutes to spare, the horse doing the last 

 79 miles 5 furlongs in 19 hours 55 minutes, 

 and being quite ready for his corn when 

 pulled up. General Tweedie, in his work 

 on The Arabian Horse (1894), quotes the 

 above particulars from the Bengal Sporting 

 Magazine, in whose pages full details are 

 given. 



Captain Nolan, in the work from which 

 quotation has been made above, sums up 

 the shortcomings of the cavalry trooper of 

 his day in the following pithy sentences : 



"Our cavalry horses are feeble; they measure 

 high, but they do so from length of limb, which is 

 weakness, not power. The blood they require is not 

 that of our weedy race-horse (an animal more akin to 

 the greyhound and bred for speed alone), but it is the 

 blood of the Arab and Persian, to give them that 

 compact form and wiry limb in which they are 

 wanting." 



The great value of the pony in India was 

 insisted on by Mr. J. H. B. H alien, formerly 

 the General Superintendent of the Horse 

 Breeding Department, in a memorandum 

 published at Meerut in 1899. Pointing out 

 the many spheres of utility open to the 



