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this noted blood to their own State of Kentucky, and so 

 bought Zilcaadi and Stamboul.' 



It must have been their progeny, then, that have made 

 the fame of Kentucky horses ? 



' Doubtless, madam, for from Zilcaadi came the famous 

 " Gold-dust " blood of that State, while Beautiful Bells, the 

 cherished brood-mare, owned by the late Governor Stanford 

 of California, is a granddaughter of Stamboul on the 

 maternal side. Then, too, the fastest colt ever bred by 

 the late R. A. Alexander of Kentucky was from a grand- 

 daughter of Stamboul.' 



Was Grand Bashaw not an Arab ? 



'He was a Barb, imported to Philadelphia about 1821 

 from Tripoli. The Logan family bred and owned young 

 Bashaw, whose sire was Grand Bashaw, and whose dam 

 was Fancy. She was a daughter of Pearl, who was a 

 daughter of imported Messenger, four times inbred to 

 Arabian blood, three times to the Arab Godolphin and 

 once to Barley's Arabian. Messenger, therefore, was the 

 sire of Pearl on the maternal side. 



' Henry Clay was not an imported horse. He was a 

 native born American, but was doubly interbred on both 

 sides to Arab blood. This fact made him a phenomenal 

 sire, and many of America's fastest trotting horses trace 

 back their descent to old Henry Clay. The dam of 

 Electioneer was also a Clay.' 



And was not Electioneer the sire of Arion, who has 

 lately been sold for $125,000 to Mr Forbes of Boston as 

 a two-year-old ? 



' Certainly, but the dam of Arion was three times inter- 

 bred to the same blood, which is only another proof of the 

 value of interbreeding to pure blood derived from the Arab, 



