These two beautiful and rare horses were presents from the Sultan on the 

 occasion of General U, S. Grant's visit to Constantinople while on his memo- 

 rable trip around the world. 



The arrival of the two Grant Arabians was a fortunate event in Mr. Hunting- 

 ton's horse breeding career as has since been proven, for he began to make prepa- 

 rations at once to select three inbred virgin Clay mares to breed to each of these 

 noble horses, which he accomplished in the years of 1880-81. The stallions 

 which were produced through Mr. Huntington's efforts by the Grant horses were 

 the all but perfect stallion Abdul Hamid II, as a result of the union of Leopard 

 and the beautiful Clay mare Mary Shepard. Abdul Hamid II was foaled June 

 25, 1881, a golden chestnut, fifteen hands and one inch in height. (See cut on 

 page 10 a.) The union of Linden Tree and the Clay mare Tachista produced the 

 wonderfully handsome game trotter and sire of trotting speed, Hegira, foaled 

 July 9, 1882, sixteen hands high, blue-black in color. (See cut on page 30a.) 



The union of Linden Tree and the Clay mare Nell Andrews produced the game 

 and handsome chestnut horse Islam, foaled May 12, 1882, height fifteen hands. 

 (See cut on page 14a.) 



We are the fortunate possessors of blood of all of these splendid horses. 

 Islam's blood is producing a most game and perfect type of horse which strongly 

 resembles the much talked of Morgans, but with much more size. 



Mr. Huntington imported (about nine years after the arrival of the Grant 

 horses) one of the greatest pure Arabian mares that ever lived, called Naomi, 

 which will be more fully described further along. Naomi was bred to General 

 Grant's horse Leopard and produced one of the most perfect horses I ever saw, 

 called Anizeh, red chestnut in color, and fifteen hands high. (See cut on page 18 a). 



It seems a most extraordinary circumstance that Mr. Huntington should 

 have been the only American horseman who was sufficiently posted in horse 

 breeding to realize the blood value of these rare horses of General Grant's, when 

 on the other hand we v/itness men who call themselves horsemen clamoring for 

 horses of most common blood and breeding. At no time in Mr. Huntington's 

 life was his genius and horse breeding knowledge more in evidence than when 

 he bred to the General Grant Arabians. 



The Arabian cause is so full of merit and honesty, and there is not the slight- 

 est element of fad, fashion or fancy about the breeding of them. His generous 

 blood has always supplied the bone, sinew, endurance and recreative power to 

 the horse of civilization. 



The results obtained by Mr. Huntington's matings with the General Grant 

 Arabians was so gratifying that he became interested in further purchase and 

 importation of Arabian horses. While he was breeding Clays in America, and 

 long before the General Grant Arabians came to America, there were some very 

 important happenings in Arabia and England of which Mr. Huntington kept 

 very close account. There was an importation from Arabia into England of 

 one very rare Arabian stallion and two mares in the fall of 1875, by Hon. A. A. 

 Sandeman, M. P. from Kensington, and director-in-chief of the Bank of Eng- 

 land, for which Mr. Sandeman paid $62,500.00 in gold. The stallion was called 



