4 The Arab Horse 



In our day the Hungarian Government 

 contributes annually $50,000 as added 

 money to the Budapest race meetings, 

 and $10,000 additional to meetings in the 

 provinces, for the purpose of encouraging 

 the breeding of superior horses. Not 

 only so, the Government maintains not 

 less than four great breeding studs at the 

 public expense, under direction of Prince 

 Louis Esterhazy. Of these, one at Bab- 

 olna is devoted exclusively to pure bred 

 and half bred Arabs, and much Arab 

 blood is also found in the other three. 

 Babolna was made a separate stud, an 

 offshoot from Mezohegyes in 1789; and 

 at Mezohegyes in 18 10 there were 13,386 

 animals, supplying at that time a thous- 

 sand cavalry remounts annually to the 

 army. 



The influence of these studs of Arab 

 horses was forcibly illustrated in 1892, 

 at the time of the famous long distance 

 race of cavalry officers between Berlin 

 and Vienna. The Prussians starting at 

 Berlin rode to Vienna, the Austrians 



