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Title: The pure Arabians and Americo-Arabs (Huntington horses); a catalogue containing history, opinions and suggestions relative to the Arabian horses and horse breeding
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: (Lawrence, James A.)
Subjects: Arabian horse
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, Hartman Stock Farm
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ave been an original distinction in these and all other animals, sincewe often see so much perfection and originality of form in the smaller sizes as torender it almost impossible to attribute such accident to degeneration. From the above original species may fairly be derived all those numerousvarieties which we at this day witness in different parts of the world. vSoil andclimate most indubitably have considerable effects through a long course of agesin producing varieties of form, color character and properties. The largest animalsare generally found to be the production of the rich lowlands of temperate climatesabounding in rich and succulent food. The fine-skinned, with elegant symmetry,dry and solid bones, large tendons and the highest degree of muscular energy—infact, bearing the general characteristics of wild animals—are bred under warm andsouthern skies, upon a dry soil, on the hills in the desert. As we advance toward the ungenial northern climes we find the domestic 22
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The pure Arabian Stallion NIMR Maneghi=Hadruji Strain. Sire of Clay Kismet and Khaled.Sire the renowned desert bred Arabian Kismet. Dam the pure bred Arabian mare Nazli by Maidan and from dam Naomi.Color red chestnut. Height 15-1. Nimr was conceded by all to be one of the most perfect horses that ever lived. Importedby Mr. Randolph Huntington in the year i8gi. animals void of external symmetry, coarse in hide and flesh, and their bones, al-though of greater bulk, porous and comparatively deficient in substance and weight.We here approach the native regions of the Cart Horse, and we have just stated thenatural characteristic distinctions between him and the Courser. There are doubt-less anomalies or variations in this, as well as in most other cases—^the high northernlatitudes produce small and active animals, whilst the dromedary and the elephantare bred in the arid and barren deserts of the south, soils, it might be supposed, theleast adapted to the production and support of animal

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