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Western States, and in some sections of Canada, as well, and 

 they have led out for our inspection their beautiful gray 

 Percheron stallions, with their good hard feet and sinewy legs, 

 their broad and intelligent heads, their fine ears and beautiful 

 flowing tails and wavy manes, can we for a moment doubt 

 that they trace their origin directly to this beautiful horse of 

 the desert ? 



We also find a trace of his blood in the French Canadian 

 horse of to-day, transmitted through his son, the Percheron 

 horse of France. The Arabian horse also stood at the very 

 head of the original pacing family of America, the Narra- 

 gansett Pacer. (See Narragansett Pacer, Chapter IY.) 



It has been proven and established for ages in the old world 

 that the best results have been obtained frpm Arabian ancestry. 

 The great stronghold of the Arabian stallion is to improve any 

 race or breed of horses with which he comes in contact ; and 

 yet we have a breed of runners descended from him that can 

 surpass him in speed over our courses and in our climate. We 

 also have a breed of trotters whose qualities descend from the 

 Arabian, that, with our American breeding and training, can 

 far surpass him in speed at that gait ; and, also, the Percherons 

 can out-draw him, yet, I claim that the best qualities of all of 

 these came directly from the Arabian horse. 



The first Arabian stallion that gave the oriental character 

 to the English horse was the Darley Arabian, so called from 

 the fact of his having been purchased at Aleppo by an English 

 merchant by the name of Darley. He was said to be of the 

 desert breed although his precise lineage was never determined. 

 He sired Flying Childers, a celebrated race horse so far superior 

 • to anything that had appeared in. England that he created a 

 great sensation and his exploits passed into history and gained a 

 world renown and crowned his sire as monarch of the stud, 

 by his wonderful speed and endurance. 



The pure Arabian is celebrated less for unrivalled swiftness 

 than for extraordinary powers of endurance. Its usual paces, 

 as used in Arabia, are but two — a quick walk, often averaging 



