S. S. ROWLAND AS A BREEDER 



the monuments of Egypt and Greece, many of them 

 built thousands of years before Christ, we find the 

 same beautiful head and neck, the same deer-like 

 limbs portrayed. Every known breed of horses 

 traces directly or indirectly to the Arabian. The 

 Thoroughbred, the Hackney, the Cleveland Bay, the 

 Percheron, the Clydesdale, and the French Coacher, 

 all have the Arab cross. All breeds of horses re- 

 quire, from time to time, a new infusion of thorough- 

 bred blood, or they degenerate into worthlessness. 

 The strongest, the purest blood is Arabian." 



As the law of reversion to type is universal, why 

 should not a horse built up from the Arab revert, 

 when left to himself, to the rather diminutive form 

 of the Arab with his sprawling action? Leave the 

 magnificent rose of the garden alone and the result 

 will be a drift backward to the dogrose of the hedge. 

 Life is affected by change in environment, and proba- 

 bly the environment of Europe and America does 

 not respond as favorably to the external relations 

 of the Arab horse as does Arabia or Turkey. Cer- 

 tainly Leopard did not rise to the expectations of 

 those who bred to him at Belwood or elsewhere in 

 this country. But seeing Leopard standing with 

 Mr. Rowland in the shade of an oak was a picture 

 not readily forgotten. He who loves a tree in the 

 landscape loves the horse that seeks its shade, and the 

 trinity is complete when a handsome woman sits on 

 the back of the horse. Three grades of develop- 



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