The Origin and Evolution of Our Pure Arabian 



Stallions and Mares, as Well as Americo- 



Arabs or Huntington Horses 



N offering the stud services of the pure Arabian stallion Khaled and 

 his half-brother, the Americo-Arab or Huntington horse Clay Kismet,^ 

 along with a number of other royally bred Arabian horses, it becomes 

 necessary to explain just what they are, that the breeders may better 

 understand the blood influence they will impart, and to better know 

 the purpose for which they are intended. 



Something over forty years ago Mr. Randolph Huntington, of 

 New York State, began to carefully collect the best of the celebrated Arabian bred 

 Clay horses to be found, and he began a systematic process of inbreeding them 

 in order to intensify the most excellent qualities of that great race of horses. Mr. 

 Huntington, as is well known, is a breeder and writer on the subject of blood 

 influence and animal breeding of world-wide fame. 



It was his ambition to create a strictly American bred National horse, which 

 he desired should possess the trotting instinct which all Americans know is the 

 best suited to our country and general use. It was his plan to combine the blood 

 of the Clays which he had carefully selected and purified by inbreeding, with 

 that of the Arabian and Barb, or parent blood of the Clay. Mr. Huntington is 

 the best American authority on the value and uses of the Arabian and Arabian- 

 Barb blood in scientific blending as required in the creation of coach and trotting 

 horses. He was the most thorough student in all of the branches of select 

 animal breeding, and has always been a champion of the Arabian and Arabian- 

 Barb bloods rather than a promiscuous use of mixed and uncertain bloods, and 

 hence uncertain results, that is too often the practice among American horse 

 breeders. Some time after Mr. Huntington's Clays were well on the way to a 

 high state of purity as the result of his intelligent and persistent inbreeding, the 

 two stallions Leopard and Linden Tree arrived in America as presents to 

 General U. S. Grant from his majesty Abdul Hamid II, the Sultan of Turkey. 

 These two beautiful and royally bred horses arrived at New Haven, Connecticut, 

 by Steamer Norman Monarch, March 31, 1879. 



Mr. Huntington concluded after much careful investigation as well as his 

 extensive experience in breeding to these horses, that Linden Tree was a *Barb 

 Arabian pure and simple, and that Leopard was a pure Arabian horse of the Seg- 

 lawi-Jedran strain from the desert of Arabia. I am confident he is correct in this 

 conclusion. Linden Tree was a dark steel-grey and Leopard a beautiful dapple 

 grey. Both horses stood about fourteen hands and three inches high and were 

 pronounced to be wonderfully fine, perfect and bloodlike. Leopard was five years 

 old, and Linden Tree was four years old at the time of their arrival in America. 



*Barb- Arabian, the horse of the Berber and Arabian tribes of the Sahara Desert. 



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