The Arab, the horse of the future . eadmirable word!—he helped some such unfortu-nate individual who was a friend to get rid of sucha useless creature by palming him off on some otherunfortunate individual who, I suppose, was not afriend. Mr. Day naively writes, we succeededbeyond our expectation. Doubtless Wapstraw,possessing this useless creature, caused his hopefuloffspring to go about in gaiters, with riding-breeches,open-mouthed, boasting that their weedy purchasewas a thousand-pounder, sir ! And the youths ofthe district gape and admire, and the fathers sendtheir mares to visit him. In a
The Arab, the horse of the future . eadmirable word!—he helped some such unfortu-nate individual who was a friend to get rid of sucha useless creature by palming him off on some otherunfortunate individual who, I suppose, was not afriend. Mr. Day naively writes, we succeededbeyond our expectation. Doubtless Wapstraw,possessing this useless creature, caused his hopefuloffspring to go about in gaiters, with riding-breeches,open-mouthed, boasting that their weedy purchasewas a thousand-pounder, sir ! And the youths ofthe district gape and admire, and the fathers sendtheir mares to visit him. In an article on Thoroughbreds in 1897 i^ ^^^Liz^e Sloc^ Journal Almansick for 1898, by C. , it is stated that Persimmon was so shakenby his race on the hard ground at Sandown that itwas not deemed prudent to let him fulfil his autumnengagements at Newmarket, and yet it is stated ofthis same Persimmon and of St. Frusquin that inthem we had two colts of rare excellence. Furtheron Mr. Pitman states that in the sale of thorough-. DETERIORATION OF THE HORSE IN ENGLAND 33 breds for 1897 the four-figured yearlings were onlytwenty-four in number, and fetched 25,950 guineas,whereas in 1896 thirty-two yielded 51,250 guineas,and he regretfully adds that the almost unbrokenfailure of these expensive colts and fillies is evidentlymaking itself felt. Persimmon ! the great horse ofHis Most Gracious Majesty the King! This istrumpet-tongued, not only because of the means ofknowledge and the sources of information at thecommand of His Majesty, but because we may beperfectly sure that his popularity and the loyalty andadmiration felt for him would make everyone in anyway concerned with his horses extremely anxious todo the very utmost that could possibly be done togive him satisfaction and to avoid allowing him tobecome possessed of an inferior animal. And Richardson says in his book on the Turf thatPersimmon was fairly entitled to be called the besthorse of his year ! If this i
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