Arabian horse with chestnut coat postcard

The Arabian horse, portrait of a typical famous Arabian with chestnut colour coat.Its name is Euclid and was property of Mayor E. L . Eliot .Winner of 9 races in India . The 19th century book illustration was retouched and applied on this item by Alma Wad . ---------- " The fame of Euclid and Lanercost is still fresh. The former is now at stud in Hungary, and the latter is in the possession of that prince of straight riders, H. H. the MaharAjah of Dhole-pore, in Central India. Major Elliot bought both colts in two successive seasons, immediately after they had been brought to Bombay from Ku - wait by their importer, Ha-san bin Badr. The prices which he paid for them were, Rs. 1200 for Euclid, and Rs. woo for Lanercost. At that time they were but raw colts, and each in his own year won, as a three-year-old, a severe two-mile race. While truly forming a par nobile fnztrum, they are not, so far as is known, related to one another. Hasan had no other history to give of them than that he had obtained them from the Aeniza. He and many others of his class are worthy men, and good judges of horses ; but it is absurd to suppose that they can foretell the racing quali-fications of an untried colt. Questions of this kind should always be addressed through the eye to the animal itself, and not through the tongue to its importer." FROM THE BOOK " The Arabian horse, his country and people " ( 1894 Edinburgh London : W. Blackwood and Sons )