THE 



GRIFFIN'S AID-DE-CAMP. 



PART I. 

 PURCHASING FROM THE STABLES, ETC. 



THE CASTE. 



HIGH CASTE, or thorough blood, of course is the 

 first thing to be observed in selecting an Arab for 

 the turf, for without good caste it is all labour in 

 vain ; but as there are different breeds, each possess- 

 ing high caste, it is sometimes difficult to decide 

 which is the better bred out of three or four that 

 happen also to be all well built ; therefore, when it is 

 an option between two of equally supposed good 

 caste, do not hesitate, when buying for the turf, to 

 choose that one shining most in running points in 

 preference to the finer or handsomer horse ; and these 

 points are not so universally known, and very seldom 

 remembered, if known, when in the act of purchas- 

 ing. Be quite certain first, that you really are in- 

 specting an Arab, for there are many that are taken 

 to be of good caste that never saw Arabia, nor sprang 

 from Arab stock ; and though the speed which some 

 few of these have occasionally shown, is proof that 

 they must, by either sire or dam, have inherited good 



