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power of four ordinary horses. This very horse, I believe, is now at the stud of the Duke of 

 Leichtenstein. He was a grey Kohlan, named Nobbier, and was owned by the Hon. Algernon 

 Moreton, of the 15th Hussars. Mr. Moreton sold him to Captain Fletcher, of the 12th, who again 

 disposed of him to Sir William Gordon in the Crimea. The latter officer sold him to General 

 Laurenson ; and when I last saw him, on Warwick race-course, five years ago, his legs were as fine 

 as the day he was foaled. He was then twenty years old. I believe he is still to the fore, and 

 getting stock in Germany. I know that the late Mr. Bamberger purchased him from General 

 Laurenson at a long price for that purpose. This, I submit, carries out my assertion that the Arab 

 horse possesses a constitution of rare hardihood. Still, for cavalry chargers you must cross them 

 with something that produces weight as well as endurance and stoutness, in order to stand the 

 crush of a heavy cavalry charge. 



"In 1837 I rode in a charge of cavalry in Spain. I was mounted on a brown thorough-bred 

 mare, than which to this day it is admitted that a better one of her inches never looked through 

 a bridle. She was by Tramp out of Bartolozzi, was bred by the late General Grosvenor, perhaps 

 a trifle too fiery for a charger, and was considerably heavier than most Arab horses. In the charge 

 I speak of with plenty of way on, I came in contact with a great lumbering Andalusian horse, 

 mounted by dragoon to m itch. The Spaniard treated me to a thrust with his lance, but missed 

 me, for the simple reason that his great black destrier knocked me end over tail, mare and all, into 

 a shallow gravel-pit half full of mud and water. Perhaps I was not so hardly done by as some of 

 my comrades, after all." 



The r/wri- correspondent, describing, in October, 1873, the Vienna Horse Show, says: — "By 

 far the most remarkable in the whole show was a string of twenty-four pure-bred Arab brood 

 mares, exhibited by Count Drieduszycki, of Galicia, who has for many years past devoted himself 

 entirely to breeding Arabs. In 1845, after spending two years in Syria, and visiting the desert 

 tribes, he brought with him to Austria four Arab marcs and three stallions, to form the nucleus of 

 a stud. He has since imported many Arab sires, and has kept his stock perfectly pure from any 

 other strain. They are all, with one exception, flea-bitten greys, and the whole string, when 

 walked out together, formed a sight well worth seeing, and are as high-caste a looking lot as one 

 might expect to see issue from Aga Khan's stables in Bombay. 



" This Vienna Show has brought prominently into notice the very great partiality felt by 

 Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Germany for Arab blood ; in fact, it would almost appear as if 

 these four nations had combined to bring their favourite strain to the notice of the world. The 

 following facts are remarkable : — Germany shows thirty horses in all, and ten of them are stated 

 to be pure or half-bred Arabs. Austria shows 258 horses, of which a great number are for heavy 

 draught, but of the remainder no less than fifty-two claim to be pure Arabs or of Arab parentage. 

 Hungary shows seventy-eight horses, of which twenty-four are full or half-bred Arabs. Russia 

 shows forty-four horses, out of which eight are stated to be pure-bred Arabs, and a large proportion 

 of the remainder claim Arab descent. To crown the triumph of the Arab horse, Egypt sends 

 eight desert-born stallions, of great beaut}- and of priceless value, the property of Sefer Pasha and 

 Arthur Bey. These are of the Nejed and Anazeh castes, and contrast very favourabl)', in the eye 

 of a judge of Arabs, with eight mares which stand near them, belonging to a Russian, Prince 

 Sanguszko, and which are stated to be thorough-bred Arabs, although some of them measure 

 over 16 hands. 



"From Hungary Count Julius Andrassy s'.iows four thorough-bred English horses of his own 



