. The pure Arabians and Americo-Arabs (Huntington horses); a catalogue containing history, opinions and suggestions relative to the Arabian horses and horse breeding. all blood horses of the world, still we canlearn of traditions or theories hatched through idle dreams of English writers,grooms, etc., to the effect that the English blood horse was a mysterious gift toEngland, or that he amounted to an inheritance from whence they do not state,but would have one beHeve he was hatched from an egg of their breeding skill,or that he was a divine inheritance. The great English thoroughbred is a des
. The pure Arabians and Americo-Arabs (Huntington horses); a catalogue containing history, opinions and suggestions relative to the Arabian horses and horse breeding. all blood horses of the world, still we canlearn of traditions or theories hatched through idle dreams of English writers,grooms, etc., to the effect that the English blood horse was a mysterious gift toEngland, or that he amounted to an inheritance from whence they do not state,but would have one beHeve he was hatched from an egg of their breeding skill,or that he was a divine inheritance. The great English thoroughbred is a descendant of the Arabian and Barbalong with cold blood in the beginning. No man honest and well-posted daressay the English thoroughbred has not been truly great, far greater and of muchmore consequence in the past than he can possibly be in the future. That hehas lost the power to transmit a plastic blood is as certain as it is that he can beimproved by new Arabian blood infusions. The English become offensive when they dare to forget that it was the Araband Barb that gave them their ruaaer. In doing so they remind us of what waswritten at Stratford-on-Avon: 70. A grey Arabian horse and desert scene, frontispiece in the hook, ^^Newmarket and Arabia, from a ivood etching by the author of that book, Major I\. D. Upton. 70a i But tis a common proof thatLowliness is young ambitions ladder,Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;But, when he once attains the upmost then unto the ladder turns his backLooks in the clouds, scorning the base degreesBy which he did ascend. We know the Arabian is pure in one blood as we know the English thorough-bred is not. We also know the Arabian blood is as pliable or plastic today as itwas five hundred years ago, and we also know that the EngUsh thoroughbred isnot as pliable or plastic as he was one hundred years ago, to say nothing of otherqualities he has lost in a degenerating tendency, which proves the value of a pureand unmolested bloo
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