66 The Arab Horse 



has been caused there by our purchase of 

 Beteyen's mare, which after all we secured 

 and the heart-burnings and jealousies 

 raised thereby." 



Asfura, daughter of Beteyen's mare, 

 and several of her offspring are to be 

 found at Crabbet Park to-day. As- 

 traled, the son of Queen of Sheba* and 

 Mesaoud, foaled 1900, is the only horse 

 in the entire collection that is perhaps 

 more attractive than Harb, son of Bint 

 Helwa, 



Another mare brought from Arabia by 

 Lady Anne Blunt that should be men- 

 tioned was Basilisk, a grey Seglawieh 

 Jedranieh of the strain of Ibn ed Derri. 

 Basilisk was bought by the Duke of 

 Westminster for breeding to thorough- 

 bred horses, and produced for him some 

 winners of races in the best of company. 



Wild Thyme, a bay mare foaled 1876, 

 which they bought of the Baggara tribe 

 of the Euphrates, was the only animal 

 secured by either the Blunts or Upton, 



*The name given to Beteyen's mare by the Blunts. 



