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Arab horse search then for the build, points, energy, and 

 graceful appearance as above described, and if the 

 stock should be free from all defects in the extremities, 

 the sire and dam undefiled by bent legs, uncon- 

 taminated by bubbles around the ancles, and uninjured 

 in any way by overwork, you will not only have pure, 

 but valuable pure blood, and a treasure not to be 

 trusted to a trainer. 



A word or two of minutice now for the uninitiated. 

 Always endeavour to obtain your first inspection of a 

 horse when he is half asleep in the stable, so that 

 you may see how he stands with his forelegs whilst 

 dozing. This can always be done in the East where 

 the Arab horse may be seen in his stall quietly 

 standing and quite undisturbed ; and the moment he 

 is led out at a walk, with the accustomed gentle 

 treatment he receives, up go his head and tail 

 naturally, and his clean straight legs are put out 

 gracefully. But in England you meet with the very 

 reverse of all this, for the moment you enter the stable 

 the whip is rapped against the wall, to induce all the 

 inmates to rest their forefeet down firmly which many 

 of them from tenderness would otherwise have been 

 unwilling to do ; then when you ask to have one led 

 out ginger is applied, to which the operator should be 

 also treated, and, what with the whip on one side, and 



