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CHAPTER II. 



The Arab as a hunter and charger — Considered as a hunter — Jurham and 

 the Forbes Cup — Considered as a war horse — Arab blood likely to give 

 better horses for cavalry and artillery — The French in Africa — Per- 

 formances of certain horses — Ninety-mile match across the Desert — - 

 Match in Madras — Certain essential constitutional points more likely to 

 be transmitted to half-bred stock either as hunters or troop horses by the 

 Arabian than the English horse — Dissertation on the chest and its 

 functions — Proper form of chest : to be found in the Arabian horse — 

 Remarks by Youatt — The different formation in the modem thorough- 

 bred horse affects all other half-bred stock — The Arabian the founder of 

 the best breeds in India. 



We will next proceed to consider how admirably the 

 Arabian is adapted to improve the character of half- 

 bred stock for purposes of field sports and for the 

 army. 



As a hunter and war-horse the Arabian has been 

 celebrated from all timxC. As a hunter, from when, in 

 early time, he was employed to ride down the ostrich 

 and the wild ass in his native country, to the present 

 day, when he carries the expatriated Englishman over 

 the plains of Hindostan up to the haunches of the wild 

 pig, faces the tiger, or, single-handed, gallops down the 

 wild deer and antelope ; and, complying with the man- 

 ners and customs of the age, becomes a steeplechaser 

 and wins the Forbes Kadur Cup over a four-mile course, 

 stated by an experienced steeplechase-rider to have been 



