Outing . ;Omar. Cross between Syrian-Arab and ordinary Mexican mare. (fetlock pads) on the fore and hind limbs inmany of the animals we examined, as wellas by the excellent proportions of thelimbs and body, and by the effects ofcrossing with Arab stock as witnessed onthe Hacienda of Don Carlos Zuloaga ofChihuahua. The sire of these crosses isfrom the famous stables of the King ofWurttemberg, a stock which is rather ofthe Syrian Arab than of the pure Arabtype; it is a larger animal than the pureArab, which does not exceed fourteen domesticated Arab of Europe soon attainsa height of fifteen and
Outing . ;Omar. Cross between Syrian-Arab and ordinary Mexican mare. (fetlock pads) on the fore and hind limbs inmany of the animals we examined, as wellas by the excellent proportions of thelimbs and body, and by the effects ofcrossing with Arab stock as witnessed onthe Hacienda of Don Carlos Zuloaga ofChihuahua. The sire of these crosses isfrom the famous stables of the King ofWurttemberg, a stock which is rather ofthe Syrian Arab than of the pure Arabtype; it is a larger animal than the pureArab, which does not exceed fourteen domesticated Arab of Europe soon attainsa height of fifteen and one-half and evensixteen hands. These measurements prove that there isso much fine blood in some of these ordi-nary Mexican mares that the cross in someinstances gives us a type even nearer theideal Arab than the sire. In Durango, on the Hacienda of Lie, PabloMartinez del Rio, we observed about fourhundred horses which were driven in herdsof twenty to thirty-five mares, each herd. A superior Mexican pony, with Andalusian and Arab blood. Ph -*< C3 :. +j J3 ccj s .& 0B ftft: IS p O < <J < 58* 56 56 58 57 651 67 67^ 67 67 7i 7 7 74 19* 20J 19I 2o£ 21 10I io§ 9* 1 of 9* si 6i 6 6? 6i Ideal Arab Height at withers Girth of chest Circumference of cannon bone of the fore leg Total length of head Length of face Length of ear 56 inches (14 hands)66 72010—ioi inches 6£—7 accompanied by a stallion, the Mexicansthus taking advantage of the habits ofwild horses. In each of these herds theprincipal colors were bays, dark browns,*with a scattering of duns, in some caseswith no duns; there were rarely more thanone or two duns in a herd. At this placethe horses were being crossed with Ameri-can stallions of the shire or work horsestrain, of an inferior type. Among these * This observation concurs with that of a breederin Nebraska, who says that wild horses run to bays,browns, dark browns. 590 animals again we carefully examined thecallosities and
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