288 REMARKS ON VARIOUS BREEDS OF HORSES. 



Their average height is about 12.2. They have handsome 

 heads set on to high-crested necks, are full of spirit, and are 

 simply balls of muscle. The capable and light-hearted way 

 in which one of these grand Lilliputs can trot away with a 

 four-wheeled carriage containing five or six heavy men, is a 

 sight worth going many miles to see. Acheen, which is in 

 the north of Sumatra, has a good breed of ponies. The Java 

 pony, though a relation of, is inferior to, the Deli pony. 



Mongolian Ponies. — Under this broad heading I 

 would class a breed of ponies which is found in the highlands 

 between Siberia and the Himalayas ; for I can see no dis- 

 tinctive difference between the ponies of Bhootan, Spiti, 

 Yarkund, and Mongolia, with all of which I have had a 

 good deal of acquaintance. I may remark that the so-called 

 China pony is bred in and exported from Manchuria. They 

 have thick-set bodies, short, sound legs, capital feet, fairly 

 o-ood shoulders for a saddle, and are handy and sure-footed. 

 They average about 13.1 and are very slow. In China, 

 Mongolian ponies are used extensively for racing, of course, 

 among themselves, and with excellent results, as far as sport 

 is concerned ; for the entries are large, and the pretensions 

 of the candidates pretty even. It has been found that it is no 

 advantage, from a racing point of view, for a Mongolian pony 

 to exceed 13.2. The once matchless Teen Kwang [see 

 Ficr. 180), who may be regarded as the Ormonde of the Far 

 East, was a little under that height. An English, Australian, 

 or Arab 13.2 racing pony could give, in a mile race, about 

 1 50 yards start to a first-class China pony of the same height, 

 at even weights. The pony of the Himalayas, Yarkund, 

 and Chinese Tartary is a splendid weight-carrier, and is 



