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too much, however, to expect this from a private 

 breeder. * 



One, however, in this country has had the 

 courage and the tenacity of purpose to do this. I 

 allude to Mr. Randolph Huntington, of Oyster 

 Bay on Long Island. Mr. Huntington has min- 

 gled Arab and Barb blood with that of the Henry 

 Clay family to which he is very partial. His suc- 

 cess in creating a reproducing type has been dem- 

 onstrated in the face of handicaps that would 

 have worn out the patience of a less tenacious and 

 determined man. This experiment of Mr. Hunt- 

 ington makes a story of its own which I shall 

 tell in a later chapter. 



From the time that superior horses began to be 

 imported into this country, and that was in the 

 Colonial era, there have always been a few Arabs 

 and Barbs brought over of various degrees of ex- 



* According to the reckoning of Major Roger D. Upton of the 9th 

 Royal Lancers, there were used in the formation of the English stud from 

 the time of James I, to the beginning of the 19th Century, Eastern horses 

 to this extent: 101 Arab stallions, 7 Arab mares, 42 Barb stallions, 24 Barb 

 mares, 1 Egyptian stallion, 5 Persian stallions, 20 Turkish stallions, and 

 2 "Foreign" stallions, or 210 in all. In the popular mind of all of these 

 were classed as Arabs. This is not right, as the real Arab is much purer in 

 blood than the others, though the Barbs have virtues by no means to be 

 despised. 



