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the Board of Directors constitutes the Board of Appeals. It 

 has jurisdiction of all appeals as well as original jurisdiction 

 to prevent and punish all frauds, abuses and violations of the 

 by-laws, rules, and regulations of the Association in any man- 

 ner relating to the course, by fine, suspension, or expulsion of 

 the offender, but no fine shall exceed $1,000. It has also the 

 power to relieve horses from erroneous records and correct the 

 same, and generally has " the power to do justice and prevent 

 injustice in all cases not specially provided for. 



Apple Tree. The quarter-pole or half-mile pole is called 

 the apple tree by drivers. To " go out round the apple tree," 

 is to spin the horse round the course ; to give him an exercise. 



Arabian. The Arabian is one of the three great classes 

 of Oriental horses, the two others being the Turkish and Barb. 

 The true Arabian is now bred in great purity by the Sultan of 

 Turkey, and w^hile he is found in various degrees of excellence 

 in the region from Damascus to the Euphrates, rather than on 

 the isthmus of Arabia, he is an animal which few Europeans 

 have ever seen. A sub-race, somewhat larger than the Arabian, 

 known as the Turk or Turkish horse, is found in Asia Minor 

 and in portions of European Turkey. In Northern Africa is 

 found the third branch of the family, and from his home in 

 the Barbary States is known as the Barb. For several centu- 

 ries, and indeed still, it has been found in the greatest perfec- 

 tion among the Moors. Pure Arabians range from fourteen to 

 fifteen hands high, and they very rarely exceed this standard, 

 being rather smaU, compact, possessed of great powers of endur- 

 ance, and capable of going long journeys and continuing longer 

 without food or water than the more artificially reared horses 

 of more civilized nations. They are docile, spirited, sagacious, 

 attached to their masters, active, intelligent, noble. 



Arab of the Cloak. In the district of the Nejd on 

 the border of the desert in Central Arabia, is a family of 

 horses of great renown descended from a mare of which this 

 tradition exists : Her owner was once flying from the enemy, 

 and, being nearly overtaken, he cast off his cloak in order to 

 relieve his mare of that unnecessary burden. But when, having 

 distanced his pursuers, he halted and looked around, what was 

 his surprise to find that his cloak had lodged on the mare's 

 outstretched tail and still hung there. Ever since, the heroine 

 of this incident has figured in the unwritten pedigrees of the 

 desert, as "the Arab of the cloak." All Arabian horses carry 

 their tails high, and, next to the head and its adjustment, the 

 tail is the feature which the Arabs consider of highest import- 

 ance in selecting a horse. 



