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descendants sooner or later, and if results 

 are persistently good they may practi- 

 cally be treated as proof. But that takes 

 years." 



Mr. W. vS. Forbes, of Boston, about the 

 same time, biought two Arabs, the 

 chestnut mare Jamilla and the bay 

 stallion Bedr, from the Crabbet Arabian 

 Stud, with the great race horse Meddler, 

 to this country. Hon. W. C. Whitney 

 also imported a bay horse from Bombay 

 somewhat later, and Mr. Eustis got the 

 bay mares Bushra and Backaret from Mr. 

 Blunt in 1900. 



In 1898 there came from Miss Dillon's 

 Pudlicote Stud the two mares Raksh 

 and Shabaka. The former was a most 

 beautiful animal, a daughter of Maidan, 

 her dam by El Emir from Rachida, and 

 so of the much prized Ras al Fedawi 

 strain. Her death, leaving no progeny, 

 was a serious loss. Shabaka was bred 

 by Lord Arthur Cecil, her sire the Duke 

 of Bedford's Mameluke, her dam Mr. 

 Chaplin's Kesia H, already mentioned in 



