Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-01-29


fifteen hands height that OF speed for trained Euro
would easily distance thoroughbred Arab any odna
course but for perfection of FORM symmetry of limb eanness
muscle beauty OF appearanceo endurance fatigue, doi
and for speed maintained distances long appear
the Nedee horse acknowledges equal The animal
require description present occason bu
it important to have clear idea Of the principal divisions
and kind which have been strangely and nuousy
fused by many writer's
Tradition assigns the origin present Yemen
but historical records dating far back the fifth century, sho
that the best quality and the greatest number
be found exactly in the district where they exist namely
in Ned Yet there horse article every
day possession of ordinary and working War parad
fact almost the only which employed
genuine Arab would dream mounting his house
peaceful journey whether short long
the almost exclusive property Of the chiefs who keep them
themselves and often for the equipment Of their armed reane
of few wealthy distinguished Individuals who regard them
investment of capital social rank. Thus
temP the hoeowner encourage the production
inferior Breeds while the other hand every
to render the greatest purity blood perfection
ab hence not strange that the Nedee horse has all appear
undergone degeneration though he has also pobab
received improvement within historic Military enterprs
and the Capitalization of wealth and power enabled the Wahhab
chiefs OF date collect and greater
than had perhaps before been possessed by single Ara
potenae and the stables and pastures the sultan Deeyea
well have has been stated contained thousand horse
since those of his much eneebled Rad told
nearly half that But allow twenty
OF pure breeds in Ned full allowance and assign
number the OF the peninsula thus making forty thousand
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statement
mo distinction of breed recognized in Ncjd ITSELF
is caed according to its individual merits. Nor is horse,
ti01 disposed of by sale; gift wacaptue egac
being the only recognized methods genuine
blood is concerned Consequently commercial export Of Nejd
horses has been abhed and whoever proposes sell
boasts Of having bought may be unhesangy down
decevng these manners howeve-to cd
caona merely and cuomaryhas the Nejde breed been
tansplaned beyond the actual limits Arabia Tn
first of the occasional chance by which the horses N
have from time time found their foreign stables hE
fortune OF Thus for instance braheem Pasha after
ming Arabia in 1917 carried away Egypt with him
hundreds of the best Ncjdee both horses and mares; tn
Egypt though only for while became Arabia the
land in this posseon and purity
the stock has long since been lost the Nile valley the effects
transoy may be distinctly Next Ibraheems
gerent, Khoorsheed Pasha, followed his example, tn
Ottoman Turks have been though equally lucky and thu
distinctive points Nedee blood may and then be observed
more than stable Consantnope
ScOnd few thoroughbred Nedees have crossed the fron
presents In this Teyu the late monarch Nejd
forty head his stable honorary tribute egnn
Ottoman Sultan, AbdeAzeez and similar offerings have AMI
then been made fear other motives may have dictated
cent other and distinguished individual
But mares given away thus; only stations.
The third and customary method by admXture OF the rae
Ndee stations yearly hired by their and int
the pastures OF ebe Shomer Of Syria and OF Mesopom
there breed with the OF those countries belonging TIL
Arabs Shomer the Anezeh the Rualah tribes OF Sy
and the like These mares are themselves OF Arab though not
Nedee stock the proportion OF good blood varying them oI
half up theefouhs nearly but OF absolutely pun
1t the offspring of such by Nejdee stations that TIL
divisions OF breed much insisted several European writer's AMI
actually recognized throughout Mesopotama and Syria but amos
often wholly unknown by in Nd ITSELF apply The
divisions principally ve,he Koheylee ad be the pure
alb the Towysee the Maneee the Saawee and the ufawee
which, branching them there infinite min
subdivisions Again these the breeds often authenticated id
purchase by written pedgees and wnesspapers OF descent de
crbed books and which may occasionally be Syria b
Arabia elsewhere when the bargain be co
of
strangers These too, the breeds whc