How Some Arabs Have Been Obtained 79 



So it happened that the old race horse and 

 charger had his journey lengthened, to 

 the degree that he stood on his feet one 

 hundred days without once lying down, 

 before he reached Marseilles. Yet Capt. 

 Vesey raced him successfully at Pau, and 

 afterward in England. He won a steeple- 

 chase when twenty-two years of age. 

 When he had to be destroyed, because of 

 a broken leg, at twenty-three, he was 

 absolutely sound. In 1890 he was de- 

 scribed in the London Live Stock Journal, 

 as ''fresh and well, with immense bone 

 below the knee (he measured eight inches) 

 and as clean in the legs as a four year old, 

 notwithstanding the fact that he was 

 hunted in Suffolk last year." 



He was a very beautiful horse, the 

 finest type of a high caste Arab, fifteen 

 hands high. Maidan's blood is also to be 

 found in the United States, though 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 decided that his daughter, from a pure- 

 bred Ras al Fedawi Arab mare, and 

 registered as thoroughbred in Weather- 



