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it is given bruised and softened barley, and after it is weaned 
it grazes on the tenderest grass, although 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 by 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 different 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 P 
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 Crom well’s Master of the Horse. Villiers, first Duke 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 “ Harley Arabian,” a horse born in Syria, of 
the highest lineage. Among its descendants, we shall content 
ourselves with mentioning the famous “ Eclipse,” which still 
remains in memory the most perfect type of a Pace-horse. 
More than twenty years after the introduction of the “ Darley 
* Applications de la Zootechnie , p. 4. 
