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The Arab fillies never stopped until 

 they had Breckenridge safely within 

 the Confederate lines. It is doubtful 

 if he would have proved a good wit- 

 ness for the case of those who prate 

 about the failure of the Keene Rich- 

 ards's Arabs. 



Other notable Arabian horses that 

 came to America were the two, Maaneke 

 Hedragi and Siklany Gidran (note these 

 names), sent as a present to Hon. Wm. 

 H. Seward when Lincoln's Secretary of 

 State, Umbark, sent to President Van 

 Buren, Linden Tree and Leopard, pre- 

 sented by the Sultan of Turkey Abdul 

 Hamid n.,to General U. S. Grant. The 

 so-called Arabs or Barbs brought to New 

 York in 1905, said to be intended as a 

 present for President Roosevelt, need no 

 attention. They were a fraud. Mr. Roose- 

 velt would have none of them, and when 

 sold by auction to pay their feed bills at 

 Hoboken, they did not bring the value 

 of the oats they had eaten. It is such 

 beasts as they, when called Arabs, that 



