The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-02

those equipments In Tho Nedijer are pink
or rose-oolorsd. The AbdRllah are a warm
gray, inclining to black, with dark name
and tail, the Arabian term to express their
color, translated. moaning green. The
Mahomet IL light brown or c~atfe-au-lait In
color, sometimes dark enough to be
called bay. The Dnkis are OF a dark
shining br ,wn, and tho names and tails Of
al are long, fine, and full, but not heavy.
Thsir hoofs are as hard Ms iron, and they
need no shoes. u die Mt m advanced age
without evor having worn them. Their
perfect height Is fifteen hands, and they
seldom exceed IT,"
Have they my concealed marks by
ION every thoroughbred Arab is To be
seen certain fine marks, ineligible only to
tho initiated. When tho colt Is young a very
fine hot iron, like a needle, la made to write
certain marks and lines on the foreleGs. to
the right and left Of tho breast, something
like this
900
but differing on either side. To the scholar
learned in cabalistic lore these hieroglyph-
les are easily read, for, beginning with
the father and mother, they indicate the
ancestors for many generations back.
Should any n buy a horse 90 marked in
America Or elsewhere, he will behold a
thoroughbred Arab. and without these
marks he is not one."
"Have any Arab horses ever found their
way to American"
II have never known or heard of but one.
and he belonged to the Abdalla family.
He came from Morocco, how or by whom
imported is not known, but 1t ID supposed
that the vessel on which he came had been
abandoned at sea, and that it drifted on
the shpres'of Long island. That he be-
lonRed to a fisherman there who allowed
him to sta, We to death on that long, sandy
n0ncA haoo.ren tn Nny1ll v,oA hrnnL him tn
harness is a sad but historical fact.
These horses are never harnessed.
and the owner, having no idea
Of his value, and knowing moth.
ing of the treatment such spirited, in.
telligent animals require neglected him,
the horse refused his food, pined and died,
possibly of homesickness. However, his
progeny shows the Abdalla blood in the
finest Rnd fastest ~trotters in America. but
he was the only horse ever in this country
born q thoroughbred Arab.
".Have the horses in Russia any special
value or characteristic"
1.-THE native 1'nrcoman horses are closely
allied with the Arabian. They are exceed
ingly tough, wild and difficult to tame and
teach. So obstinate are they and SO wicked
that, given a good chance they will kill
their rider or keeper, and failing this, they
will persistently refuse to eat. and thus
w w uSuUa 1hUlOt VuaA oOOys AAS
broken, however, no breed of horses is
more reliable and intelligent or 30 sucep-
tible to the highest training, To the newly
enlisted soldier is given the
we'll trained horse. which, in turn,
trains and teaches the soldier, answering
to the word Of command in the drill and
going through its intricate evolutions with
automatic precision, without the aid of
spur, whip or bsidle. In this way the new
soldier is quickly taught, but it is another
matter wien new horses come to be trained
in military tactics. Then the old soldiers
experience is required, and it is to him that
the new horse Ia given to be broken to mar
tial sounds and ways"
"When does a horse reach his primer !,
"Divide a mans age by three and you
will understand his comparative relation
to the horse in point OF attainment. A
horse comes of age, 80 to speak, when he is
seven years old, rs a man does when he is
twenty-one. When he is five. he compares
to the lad of fifteen, having had such judi
clous training as BELTS his youth. and
when he is three he knows as much rs the
boy of nine, and only SO much should be
expected of him. In the proud owners
haste to show off and develop the
overlooks the fact that his strength is
being tried too early, while his bones
are yet too soft for hard work. Young
horses should spend the first two or three
years of their lives in the open field until
their .dentition is complete, and to draw
from tho nourishing grass and herbs such
tonic as their growing systems need. as
we'll as to develop the full and natural play
of their limbs.
because a young horse can run very fast
for a short distance, it does not follow he
must b. Immediately trained to run long
distances in a specified time without suffer
ing from it. 1t is to this mistake that so
many fast horses owe their short lives or
crippled condition. Whose heart does not
throb with pity to see the famous racer,
once surrounded by admirers and with
every care and attention condemned to earn
his living on the monotonous track of the
street car?
"'Thereiore, make haste slowly should
be the motto Of him who sees a rare prom
Use in his pretty, playful, and petted young
colt"