. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. The Arab a 31 invaded and partially subdued by the Saracens and Turks. The Saracens were defeated in the great cavalry battle of Poictiers, by Charles Martel, 732, in which their loss has been variously estimated at between half a million and one hundred thousand ! At any rate, the survivors retired after the battle acros
. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. The Arab a 31 invaded and partially subdued by the Saracens and Turks. The Saracens were defeated in the great cavalry battle of Poictiers, by Charles Martel, 732, in which their loss has been variously estimated at between half a million and one hundred thousand ! At any rate, the survivors retired after the battle across the Pyrenees, and they must have left behind them enough Oriental horse blood to stock the country for centuries. "Vieille Moustache," who has seen cavalry service in Spain, in India, and the Crimea, and who has had in breeding, in breaking, and training thorough-bred horses of the first class, in a correspondence in The Field does justice to the unquestionable merits of the Arab in his proper place :— " The truth is, that great speed for a mile and a half or two miles is not the forte of Arabs. The flying two-year-old races in England, or, indeed, such contests as the Derby and Leger, would not suit them; they would be outpaced for such distances. Stoutness, endurance of hunger, TAKBES ARAB. and fatigue, enormous power of carrying weight far above what their size would appear to warrant, fine temper and wonderful hardihood of constitution, enabling them to endure intense cold equally with great heat, and to do well on the food of any country—these are the characteristics which make the Arab horse so valuable. Their staying quality renders the of their blood with that of Western-bred horses, in my opinion, most desirable, while their rare intelligence and sagacity must always win the true lover of the equine race. " As regards the capability of the Arab to carry weight, it is difficult to convey to any man who has never
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