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five families have derived their names from their owners, 

 from the events that made them famous, or from some 

 personal quality: as Seglawi Jedran, from the name 

 of the owner ; Keheilan-Abu-Argub (Father of Hocks), 

 Abu-Jenub (Father of Flanks), and Keheilan-ras-el- 

 Fedawi (The Headstrong). This was the family from 

 whence came the renowned Darley Arabian. There 

 is no crossing implied by breeding indiscriminately 

 among the five famihes, the blood is identical, and the 

 foal takes the name of the variety of the dam ; thus 

 a colt or filly whose dam was a Seglawi, and whose 

 sire was Keheilan, would be Seglawi. Animals of the 

 first class are those only which are the produce of both 

 horses and mares of the first class, nor will this alone 

 suffice ; for if the colt or filly were possessed of any 

 unlucky marks, or should they fail to come up to a 

 certain standard, they are not considered first-class, are 

 not allowed the specific adjunct of their dam, but drop 

 into the third class, and retain their generic name only. 

 None but first-class horses are allowed for first-class 

 mares, and when an inferior horse (not one of less pure 

 blood) has through inadvertence or by accident covered 

 a mare of the first class, such a mare is herself lost to 

 her class, and becomes of the second, as does her 

 ofispring. This is how a second cla^s has been esta- 

 blished. 



The most esteemed from the five families are Seglawi- 

 Jedran, Keheilan-Adjuz, Abeyan - Sherrak, Hadban - 

 Enzehi, and Hamdami-Simri. The varieties of the 

 Keheilan are the most numerous, and many of them 



