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About the Kathiawari and Marwari Breed
.In the Siwaliks, the southern foothills
of the Himalayas, a number of species of ancient animals have
been found, among them being one identical with the British
horse, so the Thoroughbred and the Indian country-bred both
may have a remote common ancestor in the horse of the Siwaliks,
though they would hardly speak to each other now. The latter
is, of course, found all over India, but mostly in the hard,
dry northern plains from the Indus to the Ganges and south to
the Deccan. He is generally a wretched little creature, thin,
weedy, very narrow, his front legs ‘coming out of the
same hole’, as the saying goes, seldom more than 13 to
13½ hands high, but with feet and legs of cast iron,
amazing toughness and powers of endurance and the ability to
live on next to nothing. Contrary to popular opinion, the Indian
has always been a bad horsemaster and an indifferent horseman.
A number of different varieties have developed, usually from
the admixture of foreign stock, the most important and well
known of them being the Kathiawari and Marwari, which being
very similar in ancestry and characteristics can be taken together.
Mention should be made, however, of the Unmol (meaning ‘priceless’),
varieties of which were bred in the northern Punjab. They are
traditionally supposed to be descended from horses brought by
Alexander the Great when he invaded India, and are described
as being very strong, elegant and shapely, with a long mane
and compact body. The pure breed, however, is now practically
extinct; those that are still maintained by local maliks being
well mixed with imported Thoroughbreds and Arab blood. The Kathiawari
takes its name from the peninsula of Kathiawar on the north
west coast of India between the gulfs of Cutch and Cambay. The
common ancestors of the Kathiawari and Marwari (which is found
in Rajputana) are said to be a shipload of Arab horses, which
was wrecked on the west coast of India. These horses ran wild
in the jungles and plains of Kathiawar and Marwar, and naturally
mixed with the indigenous ‘country-bred’ pony. The
Arab strain certainly shows itself in the best of both these
breeds, which have also special characteristics of their own,
the inward pointing of the tips of the ears, which almost meet,
and the prevalence of sickle hocks. They run from 14 to 15 hands,
and the most usual colours are chestnut, brown, bay, grey, piebald
and skewbald, with some creams. The best bred of the Kathiawaris
are in demand for racing, and in the days of height limits were
used for polo. It is not improbable that one of the colleagues
of Kipling’s ‘Maltese Cat’ was a Kathiawari.
Studs of these animals are maintained at Palitana and by the
Nawab of Junagarh.
The Marwari figures prominently as a war-horse in the annals
of Rajasthan, and in the Middle Ages horse breeding was the
chief occupation in Marwar. Ain-i-Akbari mentions that the entire
Rajput population of this region formed an imperial service
cavalry of over 50,000 horses. Attempts to improve this breed
have been made by the Maharaja of Jodhpur.
Like all ‘country-breds’, they are tough and hardy,
possessing considerable staying powers and having an easy gait,
and, be it said, an uncertain temper.
As neither of these two breed had been used extensively by the
British for polo or any other purpose for a number of years
previously, it cannot be said that the withdrawal of the British
Army can have had any particular effect on the numbers of ponies
bred. Having regard to the wild nature of the country which
is their habitat and the primitive agricultural needs of the
natives, it may well be that these ponies will hold their own
as well as any in the present times, when the horse and pony
population of the world is ever decreasing.
If this proves to be the case, it may happen that some grading-up
by the introduction of ‘foreign’ blood may take
place, as it has in the past.
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