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PROOF ARAB HORSE REALLY EXISTED History Shows There Was Such a Horse and He Differed Materially from the Others It was the fashion a few years ago to claim that the Arab horse did not exist excepting as a fig ¬ ment of the imagination Scientists later were compelled to acknowledge that there was such a horse and that he differed from all others even in his anatomy anatomyThen Then a claim was put forward that what was called an Arab was really an African horse origi ¬ nating in Lybla the country lying between Egypt and Tripoli on the shores of the Mediterranean MediterraneanThese These wise people even asserted that the horses we had always called Arabians were never in Ara ¬ bia until after the beginning of the Christian era some going from Egypt others sent from Cap padocia north of the Taurus mountains on the Black Sea The fact that no sucli horses remain either in Lybia or in Cappadocia although they are numerous in Arabia caused no embarrassment to these pundits punditsHad Had such special pleaders got their Xenophon or Herodotus from the upper shelves of their book ¬ cases certain embarrassing facts might have caused them to modify their contention contentionThey They would have learned that Semiramis who succeeded her husband Nimrod builder of Nineveh had an army in which were 300000 cavalry with which she invaded India before she started to build Babylon Nineveh is perpetuated by the present town of Mosul built on its site in the northeastern part of Arabia on the Tigris River and the ruins of Babylon are near Bagdad om the Euphrates both these points being in the heart of Arabia ArabiaARABIAN ARABIAN HORSES 3500 YEARS B C CWe We are forced to believe therefore that there were some horses in Arabia at least 3500 years B C Not only is this certain from the written record but their representation is preserved by bas reliefs in stone uncovered by Layarifl when he ex ¬ plored the ruins of Nineveh in the middle of the nineteenth century These show horses of the Ara ¬ bian horse size and type ridden by men making use of them in a manner such as no horse but an Arab was ever known to stand up to The riders are hunting lions with spears and arrows It is notorious to this day that no horse but an Arab has the courage to face a lion or wild boar boarIf If these wouldbe scientists still claim the proofs insufficient to establish our contention we turn to the history of Cyrus the Great as written by Xeno ¬ phon When Cyrus fought Croesus King of Lydia it is plainly stated that part of his cavalry were Arabians In arranging his force to meet the enemy Harpargus suggested that he put the camels he used for transport animals in front of the cavalry And when they came up to the contest the Lydian horses terrified by the sight and smell of the camels became unmanageable while the horses of Cyrus army having been brought up with the camels and partly nourished on camels milk were not afraid dashed after the Lydians and completely routed them themLater Later when Cyrus captured Babylon the night of Belshazzars feast he celebrated the event by a grand review of all his army This was 500 B C 3000 years after Semiramis In that review Xenophon tells us Cyrus paraded 120000 cavalry more than all the cavalry in Europe to ¬ day besides his chariots drawn by four horses each eachThis This parade was in the heart of Arabia and the empire ruled by1 by1Cyrus Cyrus extended1 from the indue River on the east to the Red Sea the Mediter ¬ ranean and Aegean on the west from the Black and Caspian Seas on the north to the Indian Ocean on the south southCAVALRY CAVALRY OF 100000 HORSES HORSESIn In the days of Darius the Youngtr the Medo Persian empire had an enormous horse breeding establishment on the plains near Mount Corone From this source alone Darius drew 100000 horses to oppose the Macedonian invasion and still left 50000 in the pastures which Alexander saw In his march through the country countryIt It would appear safe to claim therefore that there were horses in Arabia before they were sent there from Lybia Is it not more probable that the Cambyses son of Cyrus who conquered Egypt and Lybia and Ethiopia to add to the possessions left him by Cyrus CyrusThe The Egyptians had no cavalry any more than had the Persians until the time of Cyrus Horses in Egypt came after the time when the shepherd kings were driven out Four hundred years after the days of Joseph when Pharaoh pursued the Hebrews who went out with Moses through the Red Sea we are told that he followed with GOO chariots all the chariots in Egpyt according to the Bible statement Horses were so scarce even then that each Egyptian chariot had only two horses and all these were destroyed in the Red Sea SeaAnd And now in our day and country certain pro ¬ gressive Americans suggest that though there may have been Arab horses and they may have been good enough a long time ago they are not such as would be suited to our modern conditions and American climate The greater part of such people probably never saw an Arab horse Our Dumb Animals
