FEARLESS ARAB HORSE
The Arab is a naturally bold and fearless jumper, and the brilliance of his trotting action is one of the best tests of his caste. The true Arab is gazelle headed with an upturned profile, a 'high set tail gaily carried, and his eye is enormous, a blunted oval, extremely wide open and placed very low in broad, deep and wide skull tapering sharply to a fine muzzle. His arched neck and broad level quarters and back and rounded symmetrical outlines are in direct opposition to the ewe or straight neck and narrow dropping quarters of the Syrian, whose straight profile, narrow head and jaw, and smaller eye are of quite a different type. Both Barb and Syrian are high on the leg, narrow chested and angular compared to the Arabian, who should be short on the leg, with powerful legs like steel.
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Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2271, 21 February 1929, Page 6
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146FEARLESS ARAB HORSE Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2271, 21 February 1929, Page 6
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