The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-11-10
THE THOROUGHBRED.
AND ENGLISH HORSES.
eds that Galloped Mt the Rate of Sixty
Miles an Hour lundeville
Pasha--The Celebrated Racer
of the Times Past.


tits not a very far cry from Blundevill
!, tho limo u,bar ono az 40 t,,,.,o ,i,,,..
80 nv ~ Wy '''. 90 9''o'
rom Wnich inc race OF Ehglish thor
onghbred horses have sprung arrived in
ilnpland. The pve,ley Vurt. co,,o to
~ a,,..... no
'D'"' ''o'' 'nu N"""i pun
ARABIAN, himself pony of ~. hands,
nough his descendants were in eve !.
sgay great in the land. died Mt Gomn,u-
s.0g Hills. the seat of the duke
~ Leeds in lIj3. From
,ae third of This Trio. the
Jarley Arabian, sprang Eclipse. whose
IN, young Eel use, won the second
)erby, in 1881. Inc Arab has ALWAYS
leen the fav0rite horse of fiction. IIo
mas been described SO often that a pic
IRE OF typical Arab, n descendant of
5lundeytll's Barbarian, will suffice,
lere is tho small head. the SWELLING
,oslril, the small sbarp enr. ina mia
md gentle eve lin reposo. for he il
asily eXcited), the arched neck, the
impact bOdy-the Arab Is rarely
yer fourteen hands one inch
a height the clean lers. and
nat peculiar set on and car
lage of the tail, ''carried ont with a
weep like the curve Of a palm branch"
IN enthusiast has said, which are char
icteristic OF the desert born. IL Is not 10
90 understood that the three Arabs to
.lse the term literally named above
are the progeuitors of ali English
thoroughbred horses. This is bv no
means the case; but the blood of these
nree enormously prepondrates. How
,C comes to pass that the thorough
bred Arab from which the English
thoroughbreds sprang, through some
ntermiXtures of what is supposed to be
IN altogether poorer strain, should be so
much inferior in speed and stamina 10
ne English horse, which at its best has
N eXistance of only some two centu.
ies, 1t Is impossible TO say. The fact
inquestionably exists. Hardly any
weight will "bring the two"--the arab
nd the English race-horse together
mat is to say, carrying verv much
'eavler burton than the English horse
can, without any sort of effort, out-pal.
op the more direct defendant OF
ais eastern ancestor. On Indian
race courses the Arab has an allowance
u no less than three stone against Eng
ish bred horses, which must be, MS 4
ule, FAR inferior TO the average cOmpeti-
1or at Newmarket; aud tho Arab very
rarely wins u race even with this advan.
age. The courage, docility and eudur.
ince OF the Arab must be recognized
with every praise. Omar Pasha, bay
dorse belonging to the Turkish general
II that name, is said to have galloued-
It any rate to have gone speedily nine.
" miles, from Sillistra to Varna,
without Il halt, carrying 4
messenger who brought news OF
the Russian repllse. From the Crimea
omar Pasha cfme to England, having
been presented TO Sir Richard Alrey. Ii
mas been said that the animal was not "A
true Arab, but he was probably true
enough for purposes of argument, over
cup course, however, that is to say,
TWO miles and "A half OF galloping ground
ample, as the pace races are run 10
Test endurance English race horse
ls unapproachable. He has been not
only. approached, but beaten, u super.
fetal observer may say, bv The French
dladiateur and by the Hungarian
kisber, Derby winners; but these
we're in all essentials English horses,
The English thoroughbred il. i'm fact
me glory OF his race. One longs "a
KNOW what Blundevill would have said
Gouiu the good man have only seen
bialr Athol win the Derby n sight that
was denied him, unless there is more in
inc Psychical society than tho worlo
suppOses. IL has been recorded that
Eclipse, whose descent is TO be traced
irom both the Daley aud the GodOlphin
Arabian, gailOped mile minute, but
thls, or anything approaching Ia
inns, Is widely incredible. At Brighton
last year II was said that a