82 The Arab Horse 



It is related that Washington had his 

 attention attracted to the superiority of 

 the horses ridden by the Connecticut 

 cavalry when he took command of the 

 Continental army at Boston. Calling 

 "Light Horse Harry Lee" into his coun- 

 sels, they found that these were sons and 

 daughters of Ranger. Captain Lindsay 

 was thereupon sent to the Connecticut 

 valley to purchase the horse, and he was 

 taken to Virginia where he was after- 

 ward known as the Lindsay Arabian. 

 The horse that General Israel Putnam 

 rode when he galloped down the steep 

 declivity of a hundred steps at Green- 

 wich, Connecticut, later in the war, so 

 escaping the British, was own brother to 

 Washington's charger. 



The four famous grey stallions that drew 

 Lady Washington's coach to Philadelphia 

 when Congress convened, were bred on 

 the Washington plantation at Mount 

 Vernon, and were half-bred Arabians. 



In the first volume of *' Bruce's Ameri- 

 can Stud Book" we find a list of no less 



