70 The Arab Horse 



that they have produced sufficiently to 

 account for King Edward's dominion 

 being the source whence raany other 

 countries have been able to supply them- 

 selves with pure Arab blood. 



A number of the choicest stallions also 

 were brought by the Blunts, some from 

 Arabia, others from the Abbas Pasha 

 Stud, still others from Bombay. Among 

 the best of the first was Kars, a very 

 beautiful and impressive animal. Wea- 

 therby thus records him in Vol XIV of the 

 General Stud Book: 



*'Kars, a bay horse (foaled 1874) a 

 Seglawi Jedran of the Ibn Sbeni, pur- 

 chased at Aleppo by W. S. Blunt, from 

 Mahmoud Aga, chief of the irregulars. 

 This blood is considered the best in the 

 Syrian Desert." 



Mesaoud is also a very choice Seglawi 

 Jedran horse of Ibn Sudan's strain of the 

 Roala Anazah, bred by Ali Pasha Sherif 

 from a mare bought in the desert by 

 Abbas Pasha. He won many prizes in 

 England and on the continent, his blood 



