Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-09
Horses.

General Dumas, of France, has publish
ed work upon Arab horses, with the
commentaries by Emil Add Ell Kader.
We copy the following. The Arabs thus
define the characteristics of the thorough
bred horse:
1.-THE thoroughbred horse is well pro-
portioned; his ears are small and in con-
slant motion, his bones massive, his cheeks
meager, his nostrils wide as the throat Of
a lion, his eyes bright, black, and level
with the head, his neck long, his chest
full, his withers prominent, his loins well
knit, his launches strong, his foreribs
long and the hinder ones short, the belly
hollow, the Group rounded, the upper part
of his legs like an ostrich's and furnished
with muscles like a camels, his hoofs
black and of uniform color, his hair fine
and abundant, his flesh firm, his tail very
thick at the dock, but loose at the extrem-
ity. Looked at in front he is like unto
the peak of lofty mountain. Looked at
from behind, he seems to lean forward as
if he would PROSTATE himself. Looked at
from the side, he shows himself robust
and well set up. To sum up: he should
have four points broad, the front, the
chest, the group and the legs; four points
long the neck, the upper part of the legs,
the belly and the launches four points
short the loins, the pastems, the ears and
the tail. All these qualities in good
horse, say the Arabs, prove firstly that he
has real blood in him, and secondly that
he is certainly feet Of foot, for his form
combines something of the greyhound,
the pigeon, and the n,ahari, or riding
camel.
A thoroughbred horse is one that has
three things long, three things short, three
things broad, and three things clean. The
three things long are the ears, the neck
and the forelegs. The three things short,
are the dock, the hind legs and the back.
The three things broad, are the forehead,
the chest and the Group. The three things
clean, are the skin, the eyes and the hoof.
He ought to have the withers high, and
the TANKS hollow and without any super
huous flesh. 'Dost thou accomplish a
Journey at great speed with steeds high in
the withers and fine in the tlanks' The
tail should be we'll furnished at the root,
so that it may cover the space between
the thighs. The tail is like unto the veil
of a BRIDE The eye of horse should be
turned as if trying to look at his nose,
like the eye of a man who squints. Like
beautiful coquette who leers through
her veil, his glance toward the corner OF
the eye pierces through the hair Of the
forelock which covers his forehead as
with VEIL The ears resemble those Of
an antelope startled in the midst of her
herd. The forelock abundant. In the
hour of pain mount slender mare whose
forehead is covered by silky and flowing
hair The nostrils wide. Each OF his
nostrils resemble the den of lion; the
wind rushes out of it when he is painting.
The cavities in the interior of the nostrils
ought to be entirely black. If they are
partly black and partly white, the horse
is of only moderate value. The fetlock,
thick. They have fetlocks that resemble
the down which is concealed beneath an
eagles wing, and like him they grow
black in the heat of battle The fetlock
Joints small. The fetlock joints of their
hind legs are small, but the muscles on
both sides stand out prominent The
hoof, round and hard. The hoof should
resemble the cup of slave. They walk
on hoofs hard as the moss covered stones
of stagnant pool The frogs concealed
beneath the hoofs are seen when he lifts
his feet, and resemble date-stones in hard
ness"