The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-28
ORIGIN or THE TUOROUGHBRED.
II Was Not Arabia-A Fascinating subject
Comprehensiyely Reviewed.

Comprehensiyeiy Reviewed.
From me london Fled
On this subject Prof Ridgwav recently
delivered n very interesting lecture AZ the
Cambridge Philosophical Society We az
pend An abstract:
| All the ancient people Egyptians Ca
| naanitss. Assvrians, ArvanS of the Rig-Neda
| Tmbrians CeltS. drove the horse befor" they
| rode him. and Herodotus speaking Of the
Sigvnn@ the only tribe north Of the Danube
| whose name he knew. said that they had
small horses with large fiat noses and very
! long hair which. though not able to carry
| n man. were excellent under Chariots: where
| fore they used chariots bio Cas-us like
? wise says that the Britons used chariots In
! war. because their horses were small thou Oh
! active The descrintion Of the horses Of the
/ SiyvnnR tallles exactly with the abundant
! remains of the prin tive horse Of Europe.
/ eaten in great quantities and delineated on
antler. BY the men of the Stone Age lie
was n small animal about 10 hands hirh with
big head Even after domestication he
remained very small "a witness bits of bronze
and horn found in Swiss lake dwellings.
tho shoes found at SilcheSter. and in camps
on the Roman Wall &C
AUTHORITIES are agreed that from this prmi-
tive horse have been developed he cart hor
of the Continent and these Islands, while
/ our blood horses have come from an Eastern
stock OF slight build and smnrt appearance
Our problem i to ascertain the original habl-
tat Of this superior horse He has not come
from upper Asia. a. the Monaghan pony II
taken n the type OF the colr-e thick set horse.
from which sprnng the cart horse. The
Mon colian pony probably represents the
, Scythian horses. which continued to be of
small size down to Strabo'- time. and they
were derived either from the tarpan or Preze-
valskv's horse Tho Mongol ian pony though
slretooted and enduring, l. slow OF pace.
Neither China, Siam nor Burmah has any
.ItdIg' nous hor-'' answering to tn" blood
horse India could never breed horses. saws
'ither with Mongolian ponies from }unnan
o. with Arabs from Sorth psria Ade1 hn -
" has hitherto been universally held that
arabia - thf original home OF the blood
the Old Testament the Arabs are never men
toned rs riding awning but ca csm.ls and
the war horse. yet job did NOT own a sin I'll.
horse, his equine possession. consisting OF
800 she asses Herodotus wi. 81 rnuiher-
that supplied cavalry to Xerxes's host but
he r Atabs Only furnish MI s camel CORPS Aga,
Abs as camel keepers
Finally, Strabo. 'f2r - expressly
states that neither the peonl"s of Arabia
Naturally. therefore. Scaurus, ,fter defeatir <
the Arahk ng Arctas. put ou his coins Aretas
eG he sh era ns Bred ia o hS S9S
i i conseaucntly Obvious that though the
Persian King n the 9TH century c bred
"ot Of an Arab strain. These horses wero
KEEP, largely IN Armenia. and are de;cribed
md as ''erinc from tho horses bred in Greece.
nd the Other kinds Of horses Known IN the
Rom.n Emp.rc Their" can be li,tle doubt
ion d in great numbers in Armenia u?7o 4
- own as Turpn1Hs. the Turcnnan 20 lies
c4sds IT, P o ,Sf beyn The
sible that their superiority was duc, TO a.. ir
,irs"dy by o.: b .. solomon imrortcd or. 80
,,..on Egg - u, Kings. and 20 for all the
kfs gyr, and So d25 al" nj, '1 kT ID Of
ri, or could s,e ave got them from the
Arabs WHO bred nonc. even 10, years later
m,stsrs OF tie most famous forses:
fan i've ScI' TO tt' rHmss
y" founding Of Cyrene, that TIE four orss
tiers at Carriage found the Libyans using
these beautiful orses, and when y icy struck
tyne on their coins struck in Sicily. vi it er
+ + account: for t." svtrsordiHnry pane fame
Of The orses OF Etna and syracuse. and I .
famous stc"ds OF Iarentum II Il now clear
rat . Ar"hs never owned u rood orsa
until they had become masters of Mort Africa
md "" rhnry ors"s. from ON, arc
Godop ms B'rb' NortS Africa. I, ere
,or", and not Arabia or any OF or part Of
Ash; is the original home of the thorougi-
'Now. though the pedigree OF the ,cart-
horse tyre can he traced to the coarse thick:
! ancestor Of the Barb is yet 10 seek for Africa
has No Wild horse, such as tarNan or Pre-
z"yalsky's. though she has m ass and four
Zebras. including the unagga, now extinct.
| Can the Barb be Strung wholly or in port
from zesbra' Arab foals at birth constantly
when mn grown. rs nv Prof Ewarts Arab
| hllv FatiWa Strnbo, too. notices that q .
h hS. 1f the ,;byhn ,'eranant"s have Longer
hybrids from Bnrchell's zebra and various
| mares show. the MARKINGS n Of Burchell
| II has been inferred that the remote ancestor
| Of both E9rns cGboHus and Burchell's zebra
was striped like tho Somalland and mountain
But !. 1t necessary 70 go back 50 fa-,' Ne:
| not y" so nailland lehrn striocs IN the hybrid
be due to the circumstance that the dam N
each case had certain amount OF Barb blood
n her which was derived from either the
4S Nis,a or FAD GosTs "sa
from The common Wild duck, With the result
colornp resembles that Of the malard No
one would say that the hybrlds show . re-
! maiard and Muscovy. for IL is obvions that
| the lorinr Is 81 nply that of the white ducks
| Immediate ancestors. Authorities like cart
| HAYES have pointed ont the great similarity
| IN form between Rurchell's and the Somali-
| land zebra to a well-hrcd horse, T. q, u horse
| that has Barb blood ~ him. lie. therefore,
| suggested that the Barbary horse. from
| which he. had shown all the nne horses Of
| the world have sprung. was derived either
| from the zebra of Northeast AFRICA or. NJ
| is more likely from some very closely alli'
species. now extinct, which. like Preze-
yaiskys horse, may have had castors on
| its hind legs like EoMus cabdnus