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Show International Society Being Formed With a View to Perpetuation of This Valuable Breed. The Arab horse, a race which has been all-important in the development of the most valuable equine breeds of the present day, is said to be deteriorating de-teriorating in quality and diminishing diminish-ing In numbers in its original home, owing to the changing habits of the Bedouins and increasing exportation. As a step toward preserving this famous breed there is being formed in Cairo an international horse society. The first work of this society will be to start a studbook, one part of which will include only pure-bred horses of desert origin, while the other will be open to all so-called "Eastern" horses that is. horses brer1., in the near East, but having an Infusion of alien blood. Pure-bred Arabians are now found only among the different Bedouin tribes of the Arabian and Syrian deserts (in Mesopotamia and the Mejd), in a few private studs in Egypt and in a very few European and American studs. The society will hold annual shows and miction sales at which will be offered of-fered animals of certified purity ot pedigree. |