Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1887 — Arab and Persian Horses. [ARTICLE]

Arab and Persian Horses.

The general run of Arabs are no doubt first-rate horses, as far as they go, for military purposes, but they are too small ’to mount satisfactorily any but native cavalry. There are, of course, exceptional animals, which have size and power enough for anything, but they are so few that they may be left out of the general estimate which we take of the race. 1’ or any soldier whose weight is such that he can be mounted on an Arab he will be found the hardiest, soundest, and most doei.e of war-horses. He will do an enormous amount of work on a very little and very indifferent food, and will always bear himself well and handsomely. In one point only is he, more than other horses, susceptible to disease, and that is his eye, which is liable to cataract. His great characteristic is his undaunted pluck, which is never more clearly shown than when by any chance he is ill, when all veterinary surgeons will allow that he is a most admirable patient, resisting and throwing off the effects of illness or treatment in a way that no horse of another race can equal. Persian horses have always been found among the most generaMy useful remounts in India, and they take their place both in the ranks of cavalry and in gun teams! They have more power and size than Arabs, with much of the same constitutional good qualities, and—a matter of great importance to the state—they are generally cheaper in price.— Llackwood’s Magazine.