272 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
to the manner in which the throat enters or runs in 
between the jaws, where it should have a slight and 
graceful curve. ‘“ This,” Major Upton adds, “ per- 
mits of a graceful and easy carriage of the head, and 
... gives great freedom to the air-passages. The 
Keheilan is essentially a deep-breathed and a good 
and long-winded horse.” 
The peculiar rounded prominence of the forehead 
already described, the Arabs call the jibbah; and the 
jibbah, the mitbeh, the ears, and the tail are the 
parts as to which they are most particular. These 
points indicate breeding, and breeding is all that the 
Arabs care for in a horse. 
For the rest, the Arabian horse, in his highest form, 
exhibits great length. He stands over much ground, 
as the phrase is, although his back is short. There is 
acommon notion that the Arabian at. rest keeps his 
legs well under him; that he belongs to that type of 
which it is said “all four feet would go in a bushel 
basket”; but this is erroneous. Often, on the other 
hand, the Arabian stands with his fore legs bent 
backward from the knee, which is thought to be a 
good formation or habit. In the length of his body, 
in the length of his hind legs, which is extreme, and 
in the fact that he stands higher behind than in front, 
there is a resemblance between the Arabian horse, at 
least the Anazeh horse, and the typical American 
trotter. Maud 8., for example, has these peculiari- 
ties. Sunol has them in still greater degree. The 
Anazeh mares, moreover, are very long from hip to 
hock, and ‘this again is the almost invariable forma- 
tion of the trotting horse. The body of the Arabian 
is elegantly shaped. His ribs are more deeply arched 
