Having driven The Lazy VV cattle to the lower part of the summer mountain range, these stallions carry their masters to an altitude of 12,500 feet, to check the grazing land and to determine how long the cattle should be kept in the lower mountain country. This will depend on the condition of the grass. This mountainside is steeper than it appears. Study the taut muscles in the hind quarters. This is the work which builds better bone and muscle and develops greater lung capacity in Trinidad’s Arabs. When shipped to low altitudes, mountain-bred Arabs frequently can outdo the native horses. [Illustration: “SHEPHERDING HER BACK” KAHAR, A.H.C. No. 1159 Foaled April 21, 1935] As does every other stallion in Trinidad’s band of Arabs, this beautiful bay works hard at rounding up the cattle of The Lazy VV Ranch and dragging in his share of the calves to be branded. One day, while gathering the cattle for the branding of the calves, KAHAR was trailing a wayward cow in a belly-deep, ice-cold mountain stream. His leg was caught underneath the water by a straggly willow growth. Too anxious to stay with his chosen bovine victim, KAHAR lost his footing in that willow growth. His rider landed in the stream and KAHAR was carried fifty feet away in the swift water before he gained his footing and climbed up the muddy bank, shivering. Did he run away from his rider? No, he walked slowly back to the spot where he entered the stream and waited for his water-soaked rider to mount again and take up the chase. KAHAR’S beauty is readily detected in the colts he sires. For the most part, those colts are out of daughters of RIFAGE, which are grand-daughters of ZARIFE. [Illustration: Horse at desert oasis] Because of the scarcity of water in Arabia, the Arab horse who spoiled it was punished, of necessity. This respect for water has been so deeply bred into the Arab that it takes a bit of training to change him. Though small rations of water were the fate of desert Arabs, on The Lazy VV Ranch a horse can bathe in it—as shown by KABAR, who unhesitatingly trails a cow and two calves through a belly-deep stream. KABAR is typical of the horse desired by ranchers and stockmen. He is what is known as the “strong type” Arab. The other two types are the “beautiful” and the “racing.” ZARIFE, RIFAGE and KAHAR belong in the “beautiful” classification. The only “racing” type stallion raised on The Lazy VV Ranch was BAREK, who is making his home with the Mexican Government in Mexico City. Most of the stud colts sired by KABAR have been sold to individual ranchers, who are using them to produce better stock horses. [Illustration: “WHERE YOU GO ... WE GO” KABAR—A.H.C. No. 748 Foaled April 19, 1930] [Illustration: MAMAS AND THEIR BABIES] The life of an Arab mare on The Lazy VV Ranch differs greatly from her desert sisters’ existence. In the desert, a mare carried her master in tribal warfare, while the stallions stayed at home.