CHAPTER I 

 Arab Horses Outside of Arabia 



FOR many years in Russia, Hungary, 

 France, Germany and other 

 countries on the continent of 

 Europe, Arabian horses have been valued 

 at their true worth, and studs devoted 

 to their production have been maintained 

 at pubUc expense. 



Peter the Great estabUshed the Im- 

 perial Russian Stud, and with his suc- 

 cessors sought at all times to strengthen 

 it by new infusions of pure Arab blood. 

 Captain Ismailoff, who was sent by the 

 Russian Government with horses to be 

 shown at the Columbian Exposition at 

 Chicago in 1893, tells us that as early 

 as 1772 Catherine the Great had in the 

 Imperial Stud, under care of Count 

 Orloff-Tchestmensky, twelve pure Arab 

 stallions, and ten Arab mares. 



