Hopes of Starting New Breed with More Strength and Stamina: To Be Crossed with China Pony An attempt is to be made in the near future to cross the China pony with the pure-bred Arab horse, in the hope of producing an animal of more strength and stamina than the former. For this purpose, ten pure-bred. Koehlani. Arab horses, six of whom are stallions and four mares, were recently Imported by the Southern Cross Ca. for the Chinese Ministry of War. "The animals, who are present in Shanghai, are being sent up to Nanking to-night by train. Four Arab breeders made the sea voyage "from Iraq. to. Shanghai and one of them is going to Nanking to supervise the care of the animals, If the experiment proves successful, the new breed will be used for mi Capt. J, L. Hayward, Southern "Cross Ca,, interview the "North-China " Herat that it had taken nine months to get the animals, and the greatest care had to be taken to see they were all of ood stock. One of the conditions was that the pedigree of each horse should be given. These animals were purchased "from Arab tribes in the Goserts of eastern Iraq, The Arabs do not keep stud-books, but they have an inborn knowledge "of horses, whose pedigrees are handed
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