Newmarket & Arabia

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Georg Olms Verlag

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PART
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CHAPTER II
10
CHAPTER III
90
APPENDIX The causes of degeneracy among horses in other countries
130
CHAPTER III
152
CHAPTER I
163
CHAPTER II
181
CONCLUSION
194
LIST OF ARABIANS BARBS TURKS AND FOREIGN HORSES
201
PEDIGREES
207
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Página 111 - These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Página 119 - And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
Página 142 - ... they were so exquisitely well shaped that want of greater size seemed hardly, if at all, a defect. Remarkably full in the haunches, with a shoulder of a slope so elegant as to make one, in the words of an Arab poet,
Página 125 - And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
Página 142 - I do not think that any came fully up to fifteen hands : fourteen appeared to me to be about their average; but they were so exquisitely well shaped that want of greater size seemed hardly, if at all, a defect. Remarkably full in the haunches, with a shoulder of a slope so elegant as to make one, in the words of an Arab poet, 'go raving mad...
Página 37 - Childers, except one that was choked when very young by eating chaff. Mr. Cheney says, ' he has heard the contrary from so many gentlemen of worth and honour, that he cannot but be of opinion that he was own brother to him.
Página 142 - ... did pint-pots exist in Nejed ; a most intelligent and yet a singularly gentle look, full eye, sharp thorn-like little ear, legs fore and hind that seemed as if made of hammered iron, so clean and yet so well twisted with sinew; a neat round hoof, just the requisite for hard ground; the tail set on or rather thrown out at a perfect arch...
Página i - NEWMARKET AND ARABIA; AN EXAMINATION OF THE DESCENT OF RACERS AND COURSERS. By Roger D. 'Upton, Captain late gth Royal Lancers. Post 8vo. With Pedigrees and Coloured Frontispiece. gs. " It contains a good deal of truth, and it abounds with valuable suggestions.

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