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fons et origo of the business, viz. to the breeding of our stock. 
The “in and in” system, selecting sires and dams, seeking 
after speed and successful running, to the exclusion of other 
properties, seems to have been carried at last, however suc- 
cessful it might once have proved, to degeneracy in regard to 
the horse of power and endurance. He seems to want fresh 
blood, or a renewal of blood, with the breed of the race-horse. 
We derived our first blood from the Arab, and to the Arab 
we must return for the required re-invigoration. Captain 
Nolan, in his work on “Cavalry,” expresses the same 
opinion, “ The bood our (Cavalry) horses require, is not that 
of our weedy race-horse (an animal more akin to the grey- 
hound, and bred for speed alone), but it is the blood of the 
Arab and Persian , to give them the compact form and wiry 
limb in which they are wanting.” But we must take care to 
procure a pure Arab — one of the first class. “Most of our 
Arab horses, which have of late years come to this country, 
have not been of the first class, being purchased on the coasts 
of Eastern countries. 
And, “ while most of the Arab horses w r hich have of late 
years come to this country, have not been of the first class, 
being purchased on the coasts of certain Eastern countries, by 
persons having little acquaintance with horses beyond that of 
profit and loss in buying and selling them. Thus, while the 
Arab horses can only be purchased in the Desert at high 
prices, no one either in England or India will now give those 
prices for any class of Arabs, seeing that they have very little 
marketable value here since discarded on our turf. Still, 
even under this discouragement, an Arab horse now and 
then arrives in this country, having much merit, and in 
breeding from which good stock has been obtained for every 
purpose, save that of competing on the turf with the speed 
of our present race-horses. The Arabian horses, as found in 
the Desert, are not without speed, as was shown some years 
ago at Goodwood ; but they can only run at their full stretch 
for about half a mile. At a hand gallop, and under a burn- 
ing sun, their endurance is scarcely credible, and their value 
in the Desert rests on the distances they can travel at that 
pace,?w r ithout fatigue, or being attacked by staggers from long- 
exposure to an ardent sun. When a horse has acquired in 
the Desert reputation for this power, a large sum of money 
