was, however, able to arrange a contract in which he (Mr. Huntington) was 

 compelled to give bond for a large amount and to pay heavily for his use in his 

 private stud in the United States. The contract provided that Mr. Huntington 

 was to have the right to breed him to Naomi (his pure Arabian mare of the same 

 strain), and to breed him to nineteen Clay fillies. The bond given was to insure 

 his safe return. In addition to the bond Mr. Huntington was compelled under 

 the contract to insure him at a large valuation in the Lloyds, which was to be 

 kept in force until Kismet was returned to England. The life insurance policy 

 was to be payable to the owner. Rev. F. F. Vidal, in case of death, and he was 

 thus imported to the United States by Mr. Randolph Huntington in the year 1891. 

 After his arrival by the Steamer Canada, November 10, 1891, he was taken to 

 the Cattanach Infirmary on Forty-second Street, New York City, with a tempera- 

 ture of 106, resulting from pleuro-pneumonia, and died a few hours later — a 

 great financial loss to Mr. Huntington, to say nothing of the great loss to the 

 horse breeding interests of America. His skeleton, one of the most remarkable 

 ever seen, is preserved in the American Veterinary College, 151 West Fifty-fourth 

 Street, New York City, as a specimen in clinical lectures. Notwithstanding the 

 great loss occasioned by the death of Kismet, Mr. Huntington, intense in a high 

 purpose, and who is as persistent as destiny, immediately cabled Rev. F. F. Vidal, 

 of England, who still owned Naomi's daughter Nazli, with a chestnut male foal 

 at foot, then about six months old, produced by the union of Kismet and Nazli 

 above referred to. Mr. Huntington succeeded in the purchase of Nazli and her 

 son sired by Kismet, called Nimr (see cut on page 22a), which gave him a family 

 of pure bred Arabians, all pure in one strain of blood. Nimr was bred to his 

 grandmother, Naomi, and produced the giant chestnut stallion Khaled (see cut 

 onp age 26a), who attained the great height of fifteen hands, three and one-half 

 inches, which is, without any doubt, the largest Arabian stallion ever seen. 

 Early in the 1890's Mr. Huntington's treasurer defaulted in a large Sum and 

 involved him to such an extent that he was forced to the auction block in a dis- 

 persal sale at American Institute Building, New York City, February 22 and 

 23, 1894. The sale included about one hundred head of Mr. Huntington's choice 

 inbred Clays and Clay-Arabian stallions and mares. Notwithstanding the great 

 depression in horse affairs in America at that time, Mr. Huntington's sale reached 

 the splendid average of something over $1,800 per head. He was, how- 

 ever, able to retain all of his pure Arabians and a few of his choicest 

 inbred Clay mares, and soon possessed another splendid start, which he 

 continued up to the time of his retirement two or three years age. One 

 of the best of all his mares was one called Gipsy Clay, six times inbred to old 

 Henry Clay. He refused a large offer for her, made by William N. Sargeant, 

 who broke and trained Goldsmith's Maid, St. Julien, Gloster, Bodine and others 

 belonging to the Goldsmiths, but he would not part with her, as he desired to 

 breed her. He considered Gipsy Clay especially suited to unite with the pure 

 Maneghi-Hadruji blood, a thing which he had waited and planned so long to do. 

 Accordingly she was bred to the beautiful chestnut stallion Nimr in June, 1894, and 

 on May 31, 1895, Gipsy Clay foaled the celebrated chestnut stallion Clay Kismet 



