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their heads were handsomer than those of the Anazeh 
mares. The latter are built more nearly on a race- 
horse model, having greater length of body and of 
limb. The Nejd? horses are perhaps prettier, though 
not so bloodlike. Unlike the Anazeh mares, they 
stand higher at the withers than at the rump. 
“Every horse at Hail,” writes Mr. Blunt, “had its 
tail set on in the same fashion; in repose some- 
thing like the tail of a rocking-horse, and yet not, as 
has been described [by Mr. Palgrave], thrown out 
in a perfect arch.’ In ‘motion the tail was held 
high in the air, and looked as if it could not under 
any circumstances be carried low.” 
It has been suggested that this phenomenon is 
partly, at least, the effect of art; that before the 
foal is an hour old its tail is bent back over a stick, 
the twist producing a permanent result. But this is 
probably a slander. 
There is one family of American trotters, that of 
the Mambrino Patchens, which alone among American- 
bred nags is distinguished for the beautiful carriage 
of the tail, and, as [ have mentioned in a previous 
chapter, jealous persons sometimes make the same 
insinuation in reference to these horses that was 
directed against the stud of the Emir of Hail. 
All Arabian horses carry their tails well, and, next 
to the head and its setting on, the tail is the feature 
which the Arab looks to in judging a horse. “I have 
seen mares gallop with their tails out straight as colts, 
and fit, as the Arabs say, to hang your cloak on,” 
Major Upton remarks. A family of horses renowned 
in the desert is descended from a mare of whom the 
1 Nejd, a district, is the general; Anazeh, the particular term. 
