As compared with the English thorough-bred
The exaggerated idea that long prevailed of the value of the Arab horse, as compared with the English thorough-bred, which is an Eastern horse improved by long years of care and ample food, has been to a great extent dissipated by the large importation of Arabs that took place after the Crimean war in fact, they are on the average pretty ponies of great endurance, but of very little use in this country, where size is indispensable for profit. In the East they are of great value for cavalry; they are hardy and full of fire and spirit. But, says Captain Nolan, no horse can compare with the English no horse is more easily broken in to anything and everything there is no quality in which the English horse does not excel no performance in which he cannot beat all competition; and Nolan was as familiar with the Eastern, Hungarian, and German crosses with the Arab as with the English thorough-bred.
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