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2nd Life Guards, who was playing him in 1901. 

 My Editor, who broke in a large number of ponies 

 at Gibraltar and Malta, and who made particular 

 inquiries respecting the galloping powders of Barbs, 

 shares my opinion as to their inferiority to Arabs. 

 He regards them to be, on an average, about three 

 stone worse on the flat, say, for a mile, than Arabs of 

 the same height ; and looks upon them, in comparison 

 to the sons of the Desert, as a particularly sulky. 



Fig. 85.— Mr. J. R. Walker's Barb pony "Sherry." 



spiritless breed. Mr. T. B. Drybrough (and so did 

 the late Mr. Moray Brown) thinks highly of Barbs. 

 Mr. Drybrough maintains that the reason why few 

 Barbs are exported, is that the dealers cannot afford to 

 buy really good ones, which the rich natives keep for 

 themselves. 



In my opinion the faults of Barbs for polo are : — 



I. Want of speed. 



