future loss; as we will offer the services of the nobly-bred pure Arabian stallion 

 Khaled, also his half-brother Clay Kismet, and four royally-bred blended Arabian 

 stallions during the season of 1908. Mares in considerable numbers have already 

 been booked to these horses for the coming season from New York, Pennsylvania, 

 Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and a number of additional Western states. 



The old Morgan race of horses is daily referred to, as is also the wonderful 

 Golddust family, as being among our greatest achievements in American horse 

 breeding. Justin Morgan, the original progenitor of the Morgan race of horses, 

 was only fourteen hands high, and his greatest sons and grandsons were rarely 

 over fourteen hands and two inches. The Golddusts, however, of Kentucky, 

 were of a coach size. 



Those who doubt that the Morgans were almost pure Arabians only need to 

 compare the steel engraving of the Morgan horse Ethan Allen, reproduced in 

 this book (from Wallace's Stud Book), with the pictures of the pure Arabians 

 Nimr, Khaled and Anizeh, as well as with the cuts of the Clay Arabian horses 

 Clay Kismet, Hegira, and Abdul Hamid II, also herein contained. The Morgan 

 horse is all but extinct, and can only be revived to its original greatness by 

 fresh infusions of Arabian blood. As stated elsewhere in this book, the -^Gold- 

 dusts were lost as a result of the Civil War. The so-called Morgan type cannot 

 mean anything else to those who are informed than simply an Arabian race. 



There is an increasing demand for the old Bashaw, Andrew Jackson, Clay, 

 Golddust, and Morgan kinds of horses which America once had in plentiful num- 

 bers. They possessed high breeding, refinement, spirit, beauty and honesty to a 

 degree that fitted them for almost any kind of use from that of a charger to match- 

 less road and coach horse qualifications. 



The great American trotters of the present day are rapidly becoming like 

 the English runners, a racing machine, and a single purpose proposition. They 

 have been bred so persistently for speed regardless of individuality and confor- 

 mation that they have rapidly lost in all points except speed. 



It is the purpose of the Hartman Stock Farm to encourage the production 

 of a blood-like horse through Arabian blood suited to all of the useful purposes 

 that the Golddusts, Andrew Jacksons, Clays and Morgans were. 



While our stock of these Arabian bred horses is fairly complete, we can 

 hardly think of selling any of them as yet. We will, however, offer the services 

 of some five or six stallions as above stated. 



The Prevailing Colors of the Arabian Horse 



It has always been a source of great regret to me that so few people have 



taken the trouble to properly know anything as to what an Arabian horse really is. 



When one speaks of an Arabian horse, the popular impression is usually 



*GolddHsts were produced as a result of the union of a stallion called Vermont Morgan {inbred 

 to Justin Morgan) with a daughter of the imported Arabian Zilcaadie, which produced in i8^s L. 

 L. Dorsey's stallion Golddust, one of the most beautiful and potent horses known in history. 



