The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-13
THE THOROUGHBRED.
ARABIAN AND ENGLISH HORSES.
~. that Galiopsi ~ ths Hate 81 'iiiy
miles an Hour iiiunissiiie Omar
Issha rhr tsishf-tsd ilarsr
Uf the fimes i-sis

ltisuut avery Ear cry from HluuieSill
% the timo when 0na ~ the three -.rc-
FROM which Tho Tsco 60 English thor
oughbrcd horses have sprung arrived ln
England, Tho Byorloy TurS came 90
this country about lo,ni tho U0iplphin
Arabian, himsrlfa pony ~ IT,, hands,
though his descendant. NoTo Ia eve, y
way great Ia the lHni, dicd ~ 6ngma-
gos Nus, the seat ~ 'ho Slkr
the t6iri IL this trio, the
barley Arabian, spTang Eclipse, whose
run, young Ec. p.o, won Tho second
Derby, la 1881. The Arab has always
been the fNVnri,a horse of fiction, Tie
has been described 80 often lhat a pie
iuTn Of q typical Arab, n HvsocuiAnl ~
BmndeVill'H barbarian, viii suffice,
Here IL tho small hoad, the swelling
nOslril, tho small sharp ear, tho mia
ana gentle eye tln ropuSr, for he n
easily excited, the arch-d neck, the
ever fourteen hands one inch
In height-tho clean legs, and
that peculiar set on and car
riago of the tail, carried out with n
sweep like the curve u a palm hsanch,
an enthusiast has sail, which are char
actcTistlc al tho desert born, IL II not iu
be- understood that the three Arabs "a
Use the term literally named abuve
are the prugentOrH of All English
thoroughbred horses, Ih.- IL 10y nu
means tho case; but tho blood ~ these
three enormously rrupuniTsJss, How
IL comes TO pass that the thorough
tired Arab from which tho English
thurpd0h sprRns, through SOM"
iuturInlItuTes OF what IN supposed Ia hU
an altogether poorer strain, shOu,d ho Al
much Inferior Ia speed ana stamina tu
tho English horse, which ~ SO best has
an cIislAnco OF only some two centu'
Tics, Il Is impossible u say. The Mc'
uUquestiouahly exists, Hardly any
weight will bring the 'wO'-lhe Artl
aud the English rIrc-hurNo together
that rs Ia say, carrying a very much
heavier burden than tue English horse
can, without any sort ul effort, uut-sAl'
Top the more direct uvrenuNui 90.
h- eastern anct slur, ON Indian
race courses the Arab his IN allowance
80 no less than three Hiuu" against Lug
!!,h bred hUr-Cs, which must be-, a. Il
rule, far inferior 10 IL" average crNprIl'
tor at Newmarket; nui thu ArHh very
rarely wins race even with iN!S atNan'
taRe. The courage, dDriliiy aud onduf'
snro of the Arab must Ua recognized
/
hursn briOng.u. 10 the Turkish general
Of that name, Is said Ia have gnll"prd-
~ any rate to have gone spCcdilN-uinc'
" miles, from ~iillSira to Nhrna
without halt, carrying
messenger who brought news col
the Russian rcpulse. rom the trimpa
Omar PashH came 10 England, having
been presented to Sir Richard AlrcN. !!
has been said that tho AU.uIa. was uui
true Arab, hut h" was pr~hahiy true
enough for purposes of argument. over
a cup course, however, mat IL to Say
two miles anda mali o. giliuping ground
ample, rs the pace races are run III
test endurance the English race horse
il uuapproacENhc. lie has been moi
only apGrotcncd, but beaten, super
. ticial observer may say, hy the Fseucl
/ Gladialcur' and by tho Hungarian
kishcr, Derby winners; but theHe
were in all essentials English horses
| The English thoroughbred ~, IN TACT
! the glory OF his race. One longs u
| know what Blundevll would have ssiC
could tho good man have only seer
/ Blair AthOi win the Derby-a sigh, tina
WAS denied him, unless there Is more u
! tho Psychiral society than tho wori,
/ supposcs. II has been recorded tina
| Eclipse, whose descent Is To be traced
/ from both the barley and the GOdolph'l
Arabian, gallopsd mile - minute, bu
| this, or anything approaching. L
! this, is widely incredible. At Brighton
| last year ii was said that
I horse called Rrag, Tn. properly Of Mr.
/ Leopold de kOthschiid, ran mile anI
/ hcattho oaks winner, Geheimniss,i In leS'
/ than one miuste and lhirtynino seconds
| bug this again is exceedingly doubtful
/ Probably ths quickest time ON record i
I that made by the late Lord Stanford
/ DiOphIuluI, u son Of Orlando, who
| through Eclipse and other horses, united
/ lNC great Arab ara uS. Diophaniu
won the Two thousand guiuCas IN on
minute and forty Ihroe seconds. The
/ COURSE is seventeen yards over one mile
/ and This Tune, over tno same course
, vas cqiailrd by GGiuplu, winner o
/ tn" Burty in $50, in his match agH!us
/ stray shot, dam Of SuDtuyer, who won
. me great EPSON race for the Duke o
/ Westminster in isS2. IL i 81 singular il
/ iusi n, we suppose, as the uulnStructct
( do, thav the English thOruugn nutH
/ Us e slim and ttehic-wnar is called ,
/ wouGy animal. There are W"oOy mem
/ hcrs Of his tribe, Nc doubt, and " hen cN
posed on Il race course, 40 years old
/ Nh rh probably means some tWCut.
months, these banilIngs may seem poor
These can no moro Ne ~et down as typ
( Ctl race horses than can tho lO-year-0lt
/ BOY ho hogd mp AS au example of tht
. n,an.- EugIiSn Magazine.