ARABS LIVE LONGEST.
_ A remarkable contrast in the working life of horses is called to mind by the International Show at Olympia (says a lioine paper). An English thoroughbred seldom lives to a ripe old age; twenty.three, however, .is not an exceptional age for an Arab steed. Although he cannot compete with the English or American thoroughbred for speed, there is no horse in the world like the Arab for endurance and all-round .fitness. Lord Roberts rode the same Araib through all his campaigns, covering in twenty-two years a distance of some 50,000 miles. For the last three thousand years homes in Arabia, have been inured to hardy usage and very scanty feeding from earliest youth. "Xow they represent a splendid examnle of Xahire's hard rule—the survival of the fittest.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 153, 24 July 1909, Page 4
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130ARABS LIVE LONGEST. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 153, 24 July 1909, Page 4
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