and the reader must bear in mind what blood predominated in these marvelous 

 horse breeding results. 



It amounted to the reunion and mating of kindred blood — Arabian, Arabian- 

 Barb, Turkish Arabian, etc. 



Every country of Europe was glad to reimburse their government breeding 

 studs from England's Anglo-Arabs as well as to import Arabians and Barbs and 

 maintain them in purity to improve their war, carriage and even draft horses 

 with, after the glowing success of England, France and Russia. 



The first stud book known to civilization was Weatherby's General Stud 

 Book, published in 1791, revised in 1803, and perfected in 1808. The publi- 

 cation of 1808 was the foundation for the Anglo-Arab (English Arabian), finally 

 called English thoroughbred. The English foundation of Eastern basic blood 

 embraced one hundred and one Arabian stallions, seven Arabian mares, forty- 

 six *Barb stallions, twenty-five Barb mares, twenty-eight fTurks, five tPersian, 

 one §Egyptian, and four unknown foreigns; total, two hundred and seventeen 

 Eastern horses and mares, **from which blood came the Anglo-Arab mares 

 which Count Orloff bred to Smetanka (the pure Arabian) and thus created the 

 basic blood of the Orloff trotters and coach horses. 



From the above original 217 horses (the greater part of which were Arabians 

 and Barbs) grafted on to English mares, many of which were of no known breed- 

 ing, came the English thoroughbred running horse. 



Nothing can prove the pliability of primitive blood such as the Arabian and 

 the Arabian-Barb more than the fact that from these bloods France got her re- 

 nowned draft horse, the Percheron; England her thoroughbred runner; Russia 

 her Orloff trotters and coach horses ; Austria her charger ; America her Morgans, 

 Clays, Golddusts, Denmarks, and finally the present trotter which stands today 

 the result of the blood of the imported Arabian-Barb, Grand Bashaw, the Clays, 

 the Morgans, etc., and further due to many direct lines of blood to the Godolphin 

 Barb, the Darley Arabian, the Byerly Arabian, which is gained through the Clays, 

 to say nothing of the countless other direct lines of Arabian blood that came in 

 through the mediums of Anglo-Arabs, such as Messenger, Sir Archer, Boston 

 and Lexington, who in turn include all the Arab and Barb blood of England's 



**English marcs used in the year iTJJ by Count Orloff were called Anglo-Arabs. 



*The horse of the Arabian and Berber tribes of the Sahara Desert. 



■\TJie term Turkish horse is indefinite. There is no fixed breed of horses in Turkey. A Turk- 

 ish horse might mean a Turkoman horse, a Barb horse, an Arabian horse, a coast Arab {impure Arabs 

 bred along ilie Persian gulf coast), or the term might mean a horse with some or all of these bloods. 



%A Persian horse, in all probability, is a Turkoman horse pure and simple. It might, how- 

 ever, mean a modern part-bred Arab. 



^Egyptian horses might mean a pure Arabian, perchance, or a pure Barb, or a mixed or bastard 

 Arabian or Barb. Tlte reports of ordinary tourists as to Arabian and Eastern horses are seldom ever 

 correct, as more than ordinary knowledge is necessary on such subjects. Horse barters are plentiful 

 around coast towns and cities. Tlte NiscBan horse of ancient Media, frequently referred to with 

 praises by all of the historians from Herodotus to Livy, and which were greatly prized by all kings 

 and princes of the East, is thought to have been of Parthian extraction, and which is believed to be 

 represented in Media at the present day by the stock of horses called Turkoman. Part-bred 

 Arabians are also to be found in Media at tlte present time. 



