xxxiii HORSE RACING, HUNTING AND POLO 327 
with a most suitable climate. The portions of the 
Protectorate which for the present seem more 
especially suitable for horse breeding are perhaps 
western Kenia, parts of the Uasin Guishu plateau, 
and Likipia. 
There are almost as many types of horse in the 
country as there are types of settler. We have 
English horses, walers, Africans, Basutos, Arabs of 
both types, Indian country-breds, Somalis, Abyssinians 
and Boran, and, best of all, a rapidly growing and 
improving class of country-breds. All do well, and 
there are customers for every class. The animal the 
ordinary resident farmer wants for the most part is, 
perhaps, a small, strong and hardy animal. Small, 
because he is easy to get on to and will not eat 
so much. Strong, because he will be wanted to be 
ridden over the farm all day and every day. Hardy, 
because, though usually he will be kept well, he will at 
times be wanted for long journeys where he will have 
to pick up what grazing he can find and sleep cold 
at night. To produce such an animal a likely cross 
would be a good class Arab stallion with the best 
Abyssinian mares obtainable. Abyssinia is full of 
horses of very varying excellence. While the majority 
of ponies seen in the south and in the weekly horse- 
market at Adis Ababa are small and not too 
well shaped, there are some extremely useful animals 
to the north, more especially in the Walla country. It 
would mean a great deal to the Protectorate if a 
hundred of the best of these mares could be imported.. 
During 1910 and 1911 some fourteen or fifteen 
hundred horses from the Boran country were driven 
down into the Protectorate by Somalis, the majority 
of them being run across the Abyssinian frontier, 
