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it is given bruised and softened barley, and after it is weaned 

 it grazes on tbe tenderest grass, altbougb barley forms its staple 

 support. All the inhabitants of the tent lavish on it their caresses, 

 just as if it were a child belonging to the family. When its 

 back gains strength it is at first mounted bj' a child, and gently 

 exercised ; it then carries in succession the child, the youth, the 

 grown Man, and the warrior. Its limbs and its joints are objects 

 of the most constant solicitude while being gradually trained to 

 endure fatigue and privations of hunger and thirst. The Arab, in 

 fact, identifies the courser with his own existence, and thus the 

 nobility of its race, the mode of its education, the affection with 

 which it is surrounded, make it at the same time the most beauti- 

 ful, the most abstemious, the most docile, the most loving, and the 

 most intelligent of all the equine race, while it is the best fitted 

 for long and rapid journeys. 



According to M. Sanson, the breed of English Horses called 

 Thorough-breds, springs from animals of Arab lineage, which 

 were introduced into England, and modified in their original 

 aptitudes by diiferent uses, particularly that of Horse- racing. Into 

 France also they have been imported, together with the practice 

 of the latter sport.* The typical characteristics of the English 

 racer differ but little from those of the Arabian Horse. It is, 

 therefore, according to the same author, an error to look upon the 

 English racer as forming an independent breed. The next 

 point is, how did the Arabian Horse come to be introduced into 

 England ? 



The first foreign stallion which is mentioned in ancient chronicles 

 as being imported into England, is the " White Turk," which 

 was purchased by James I. from a M. Place, who subsequently 

 became Cromwell's Master of the Horse. Villiers, first Dulce of 

 Buckingham, then introduced "Helmsley's Turk," and afterwards 

 "Fairfax's Morocco." But, generally speaking, this genealogy is 

 not traced back beyond the commencement of the last century, 

 beginning with the "Darley Arabian," a horse born in Syria, of 

 the hio-hest lineage. Among its descendants, we shall content 

 ourselves with mentioning the famous "Eclipse," which still 

 remains in memory the most perfect type of a Eace-horse. 



More than twenty years after the introduction of the " Darley 



* Applications de Ja Zootechnie, p. 4. 



