of the past yield knowledge more readily than the undecipherable unwritten 

 pages of the future. We must, therefore, review the past and mark well each 

 correct pathway in our breeding careers, by the guide boards of past experience 

 and accomplishments. 



The world-renowned desert-bred *Darley Arabian, bred to the Arabian mare 

 Betty Leedes, produced England's greatest race horse. Flying Childers, who was 

 likely the greatest of all of England's marvelous achievements in the creation of 

 reproducing races of animal life. 



Not only is England the greatest horse breeding country in civilization, but 

 she is also just as pre-eminently the leader in classified breeding of cattle, 

 sheep, swine and dogs. 



Betty Leedes, the dam of Flying Childers, was by Careless from a sister to 

 Leedes, by Leedes' Arabian, from a mare by Spanker out of a Barb mare, who 

 was Spanker's own mother. Spanker himself was by D'Arcy's Yellow Turk, 

 from a daughter of the Morocco Barb, and Old Bald Peg, by an Arabian horse, 

 from a Barb mare. Careless was by Spanker from a Barb m.are, hence the dam 

 of Childers was closely inbred to Spanker. 



The revival of the Arabian horse into civilization at frequent intervals 

 over the past seven or eight hundred years is a fact in itself sufficient to prove 

 their indispensable value, rarest excellence and generous blood. He has been 

 subjected to every form of horse breeding trial and blood tests known to civili- 

 zation, but his pure and plastic blood has never failed to respond to whatever 

 has been demanded of him, it mattered not whether it was a draft horse or a 

 roadster, a charger or a trotter, a runner or a coach horse, for direct return to 

 his never failing blood has promptly given it in most generous quality, always 

 superior to that which could be obtained from any indirect source. 



I believe I am safe in saying that no government stud in the world can boast 

 of a collection of Arabian bred horses that are superior to those possessed by the 

 Hartman Stock Farm, thanks to Mr. Huntington's valuable collections and breed- 

 ing. We have collected as many of Mr. Huntington's Arabians as we could get, 

 and have arranged to continue their breeding and preservation. The blood of 

 the Arabian bears a relation to horse breeding that is similar to the relation which 

 alcohol bears to whisky, ale, wine, etc., or yeast to the leaven, etc. 



I regard Fate as at her most cruel pitch when she permitted Mr. Hunting- 

 ton's glorious work and unfinished plans to be so murderously thwarted as they 

 were when his genius and skillful hand had all but appUed the finishing master 

 strokes to a noble ambition and sublime achievement in the interests of animal 

 life. It is evident to me that Mr. Huntington's every horse breeding plan and 

 theory was founded on the staunchest rock of good reasoning, and that every 

 result foretold by him will yet ripen into a rich harvest of reality, and that the 

 crowning reward of good effect that must follow every well-directed cause will 

 further exemplify his wealth of wisdom in the great arts of basic blood breeding. 



*See article in this pamphlet, "Arabian and Barb Horses in England and Their Blood Influ- 

 ence on Horse Breeding of that Country." 



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