56 MY horse; my love. 



proved that sometimes gold wins despite the Sultan 

 and the wily horse-copers of the desert." 



Because of their scarcity any prejudice against 

 them must be founded on ignorance? 



"Ah yes, ignorance is a quality which 'knows it 

 all,' and to proclaim that they have deteriorated is 

 due to the same cause. The pedigree which boasts 

 an ancestry of great deeds and lengthy traditions, is 

 as jealously guarded by the haughty sheiks now as 

 in former days." 



But they are brought out once in awhile, although 

 the vSultan, considering he doesn't own any, has for- 

 bidden the export of the "true air-drinker?" 



" It has been always as much the result of good 

 luck, as good management when a purchase has been 

 negotiated. In the times of Abd-el-Kadir fine stal- 

 lions even were scarce in the Sahara, while to secure 

 an Arab mare was to employ stratagem, which 

 would be considered unworthy in any other trade 

 than horse-dealing. " 



But aside from the many fine points you have men- 

 tioned, why are they so coveted and valuable? 



" Because the Arab horse is the primitive blood 

 cause, and has successfully withstood the tests of 

 in-breeding for many centuries. Experience for 

 many decades has so fully justified the production of 

 the Anglo-Arabian thoroughbred, that to reproduce 

 it new blood must be infused, for which new importa- 

 tions of the Arab are necessary." 



Is the name Anglo- Arab arbitrary? 



" The English discovered, some two centuries ago, 

 that with their native horses, together with the 



