i82 1 he Arabian Horse, 



more difficult and severe than any country or course in 

 England, which, in 1871, Jurham, the only Arab in the 

 race, among a good field of horses, wins with ease, the 

 Arabian has ever proved himself a horse of unmatched 

 courage and endurance. The tall and heavy grass, said 

 to be so difficult and exhausting for so small and light a 

 horse to force his way through, and other difficulties in 

 the course, proved to be rather destructive to the Arab's 

 opponents, as Jurham had speed and bottom left in him, 

 in the last half-mile of tolerably open ground, when 

 called upon to shoot away from his horses and win 

 easily. 



The high courage, the suppleness, the spring and 

 elasticity, the compact but developed form, and great 

 muscular development of the Arabian must cause him 

 to be the horse best adapted for a hunter. 



These qualities render him also more desirable than 

 any other horse as a sire for begetting half-bred stock, 

 either for hunting or for the military service. A horse of 

 pure blood is more likely to implant and stamp his own 

 good points and qualities upon properly selected stock, 

 and in a greater degree, than a horse of less pure blood, 

 such as the so-called English thorough-bred horse; more 

 especially, too, when the latter horse does not possess 

 the combination of excellences of the former. In the 

 hunting-field, whenever a horse has possessed any direct 

 Arab blood, he has always shown himself an excellent 

 and superior hunter. This was the opinion of no less a 

 udge than Davis, the late Royal Huntsman. 



As a war-horse, from the days when he carried his 



