76 The Arab Horse 



dolph Huntington, of Oyster Bay, Long 

 Island. After a long and stormy passage 

 Kismet reached New York by Str. 

 Canada, Nov, 11, 1891, only to die two 

 hours after landing, of pleuro-pneumonia 

 contracted on the voyage. This rather 

 extended history of Kismet has been 

 given because, though his untimely 

 death was so serious a loss, he has had, and 

 will continue to have, an important in- 

 fluence on horse breeding in America, 

 two of his pure bred sons having come to 

 this country in 1893, as will be noted 

 later. 



Maidan is the last of the great horses 

 that came to England from Arabia 

 through India, whose name can have our 

 especial attention. Many who knew him, 

 including Lady Anne Blunt and the Hon. 

 Miss Dillon, place him even above Kismet, 

 and the opinion is concurred in by others 

 who knew him only by his offspring. 

 Maidan was foaled in 1869 in Nejd, a 

 chestnut (as was Kismet) , said by some 

 to have been a Manakhi Hedruj, though 



