In Arabia, shortly after colts...
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In Arabia, shortly after colts are born, they are entrusted to a trainer who uses only a bugle to lead them to water, food, and back to the corral. Never a word is spoken. All training is done with the bugle. After several months, the test is made. The horses are locked in the corral. They are kept there for four days without food and water. By the fourth day, they claw the fence and the sides of the walls, inflicting wounds on themselves, as they smell a freshwater breeze blowing in their direction from a nearby stream. After four days, the bars are let down and the horses stampede toward the stream. Just then, the bugler sounds the retreat. Those horses, which, despite their terrific thirst, turn back into the corral are used for breeding purposes. They only are deemed worthy of perpetuating the final strain of Arabian horses. (Resource lost.) -- Keller
