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14 hands or a little over, perhaps capable of carrying 

 eight or nine stone; and therefore argue, the Arab being 

 about the same height, it is the same with him ; but 

 Arabs are master of more than a light weight, and have 

 done some wonderful things under very heavy weights. 

 A member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons 

 thus speaks of an Arab 14 hands i inch, he had the 

 opportunity of seeing a few years ago ; he might not 

 have seen many Arabs, yet his knowledge of anatomy 

 enabled him at once to appreciate the horse : * I con- 

 sider him better able to carry fourteen stone than many 

 horses that measure fifteen hands, and more elastic and 

 easy to ride ; his hind quarters are longer and bigger 

 than some horses at sixteen hands. I believe him to be 

 the most perfect Jiorsc I have ever seen! Here we have 

 the acknowledgment from a professional man — who, 

 after some thirty years' experience, during which period 

 he must have seen some of the elite of England — that the 

 one little Arab stranger, not a selected horse, was 

 the most perfect specimen of the equine race he had 

 met with ; and further, a declaration that in an animal 

 of 14 hands i inch actual greater size was found than in 

 many of 16 hands, yet with a perfect form. A small 

 horse is not necessarily a weed ; and one apparently 

 very large may be in reality a small horse, may be light 

 and weedy ; another may be big, coarse, and weedy. 

 An overgrown horse, although he may have powerful 

 shoulders and quarters, big limbs and large bone, if he 

 fails in his middle piece and loins — which is very often 

 the case— is weedy. He is not in harmony ; he lacks 



