Eastern 

 horses. 



58 THK IIORSK. 



found ill this country furnished the 



parent stock for the English racer, by 



giving the superior size and proportion 



Proportion of of iiioving | )arts, the Barbs and Turks 



moving parts 



El^t^rn^ supplying the locomotive system, the 

 one in request when fleetness of limb 

 was demanded ; and although the East- 

 ern horses did not directly create the 

 thorough-bved of to-day, they caused the 

 great move which led to his creation, by 

 introducing the material to which the 

 greater quality combinations effected by 

 Arabs was afterwards introduced. 



The history of the past cannot lead us 

 to a^ree with Admiral Rous in his asser- 

 tion that the thorough-breds of to-day 

 have descended in a direct line from pure 

 Arabs, ^' as pure exotics without a single 

 drop of English blood in their veins." 



