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THOROUGHBRED VS. ARAB TEST. New York, September 12. — Lieutenant Warner McCabe, V. 8. A., is here to arrange for the use o; ene of Homer Davenportsl Arabian horses in an endurance test of 900 miles against a thoroughbred. Lieutenant McCabe is an otficer in Incle Sams cavalry service and he lias the reputation of being one of the finest horsemen in the army. It appears that he was the champion of the Barb against tin thoroughbred in an argument recently with one o! the Caatietnaan, of Kentucky, and Mr. Castlemau made him a bet that a thoroughbred would outlast an Arab in a 300-utile test. Lieutenant McCabe agreed to take the Kcntuckian Bp, provided he could secure a suitable Arab to pit against the .Ktleman thoroughbred. Louisville. Ky., September 12. — The proposal for a 200-mile race between a thoroughbred and an Arabian horse interests horsemen at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park. They have an idea that the horse from the desert has little chauce with a thoroughbred doing anything. They think that General Castlemau has an easy thing if he accepts Lieutenant MeCabes challenge, since it is a well-known fact that thoroughbreds! have been tried against blooded trotters and they have outlived the latter over a course of twenty miles. Such a race as promised by Lieutenant McCabe undoubtedly would he a great attraction on either track in LonhrrUle and it probably would suit General Castleman Istter to ride 906 times around Douglas Park or Churchill Downs than to take chances of going through a country with good and bad roads. An old-time turfman today recalled a similar controversy years ago between two notable men. So interested did the late A. Keene Richards become in a discussion relating to the superiority of the American horse over the Arabian horse that be, at an unusual outlay of money, proivedeil to Arabia, purchased the finest mares and stallions to be found and brought them to his farm near Georgetown, Ky. He not only bred them pure, but crossed them on great thoroughbred mares of that day. He nearly ruined his great thoroughbred stud and realised no recompense for his experiment. The commonest thoroughbred could make the best of his Arabian horses resemble plow horses. He wanted several of the breeding years of the illustrious mare, Ievtonia. by mating her with an Arab stallion. She failed to foal a colt by the Arab that could run at all fast, but when she was at last mated to a thoroughbred she became the dam of several high-class racers. A horse called Limestone, tracing to Ievtonia. is about the best performer in the American stud book having a later-day Arab cross. H is contended that the thoroughbred has all that the Arab had originally and that. biaMlB. he represents some two or three hundred years scientific improvement upon his Haiti ancestors. The horse capable of outstaying a thoroughbred in a 30O-mlle endurance test is not yet bred, is the contention of students of the thoroughbred.
