138 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 
Arabs, although roan and yellow are common among 
Barbs. The bays often have black points, and generally 
one or more white feet, with some white in the face. The 
chestnuts vary from the brightest to the dullest shades 
(Fig. 21). 
159. Types and families. — It has been asserted that 
there were two breeds of Arabian horses, a large breed and 
a small breed. This is untrue; there is but one general 
breed of Arabian horses, of which there are many families, 
which are different and distinct in many ways. While 
there are not two distinct breeds, there are a first and a 
second class. A horse, or mare, about whose breeding 
there is the slightest doubt, is disqualified, and not called 
“chubby,” and therefore is of the second class. The 
families originated and descended from some great mare. 
In all cases the breed of the colt is that of the dam, and not 
of the sire; thus, a colt, whose father had been a Hamdani 
Simri, and whose dam had been a Seglawieh Jedranieh, 
would necessarily be a Seglawi Jedran. The Bedouins 
count the father little, so long as he is “chubby,” meaning 
a pure-bred that the Anazeh would breed from, but they 
place everything in the value of the mother’s blood, and 
of her own individuality. 
The Gomussa, of the Sabba Anazeh, are the shrewdest 
horse-breeders of the desert. They have retained, in the 
largest numbers, specimens of the five great families, 
which are called the Khamseh, which means five. They 
also have the choicest of the other families, which are 
rated equal in point of blood. The Khamseh, so the story 
runs, have descended from the five great mares, which, 
with other mares of Sheik Salaman, were drinking at the 
river after long hardships in war, when the trumpet blew, 
calling them back to battle. Only five responded to the 
