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are too difficult to get of suitable kind. English 

 ponies which are fit for polo, have almost invariably at 

 least one parent (generally the sire) a full-sized horse, 

 and are consequently chance " gets " of a size much 

 smaller than the average height of their respective 



Photo by'] 



[M. H. HAYES. 



Fig. 39. — Lieut. -Colonel Fenwick's "Matchbox. 



parents. They are seldom as small as 14 hands. 

 Arabs, Syrians, and Egyptians, on the contrary, are a 

 race of ponies whose average height may be put down 

 at about 14.15^. Hence, a very much larger propor- 

 tion of them than of English horses will be 14 hands 

 and under. Also in America, owing to the severe 



