The Arab; The Horse of the Future
London: Gay and Bird, 1905. First edition. Hardcover (full tooled leather, gilt-stamped spine). 249p + 8 photos and other ills. (including 3 photos of the stallion Rafyk). Preface by Sir Walter Gilbey. Large rubber-stamp bookplate of John A. Cockburn, with rooster and thistles. Good (front cover rehinged, top of spine mended, small corner torn from front endpaper; binding very sound). Item #31150
On the deterioration of English and Australian horses, and how to improve them by adding Arabian blood. "In all the best qualities of the horse--soundness, stamina, endurance, and docility--we cannot do better than revert to the pure Arab, which continues unspoiled by artificial treatment." Boucaut later established an Arabian stud farm in Australia, for which he imported stallions from the Crabbet Stud. (Wells 974).
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