How Some Arabs Have Been Obtained 51 



stud in England, continue the breeding of 

 Arab horses at Heliopolis, near Cairo, 

 Egypt, under the superintendence of 

 Sheik Obeid, to the present day. 



As descendants of many of these ani- 

 mals have come to America from 1888 

 to the present time, it will be of interest 

 to note some of the most valuable in- 

 dividuals and trace their antecedents and 

 subsequent history. We have already 

 noted that all Arab breedings are founded 

 on the female line, to the extent that if a 

 foal is offspring of a stallion and a mare 

 of different families, it takes the family 

 name of its dam, not its sire, we there- 

 fore will first consider the mares. 



The first time Upton visited Arabia he 

 secured three animals, two mares, Zuleika 

 and Haidee, and the stallion Yataghan. 

 Zuleika produced one colt foal named 

 Symmetry, then died. Yataghan was 

 bred to Haidee and then sold to the antip- 

 odes. Haidee produced one foal, Naomi, 

 then she died also. 



After the death of Major Upton, Naomi 



