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Osmer writes : u Accurate observers must 

 have noticed that the greater part of 

 horses brought to this country as Barbs 

 and Arabians have exhibited a palpable 

 deficiency in the points contributing to 

 strength and the want of general sub- 

 stance ; they are more or less dispro- 

 portioned, crooked, and deformed in 

 some part or other ; though their shoul- 

 ders exceedingly incline backwards, yet 

 their forelegs stand very much under 

 them. The Godolphin Arabian, when I 

 saw him, stood bent at knees, with his 

 forelegs trembling under him." 



Again another author complains, 1770: Opinions on 



the immediate 



" The immediate (uncrossed) descendants S225 

 of Eastern horses have of late years, horses. er 

 almost without exception, proved so de- 

 ficient that our breeders will no more 



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