AN OREGON ARAB 



stalls. The remaining horses had been bought 

 principally by people in New England. 



Late in the fall of 1895, 1 came to New York 

 City. One of the first letters I wrote was to Mr. 

 Randolph Huntington, of Oyster Bay, Long 

 Island, to inquire if he knew where the horses 

 that had been at the World's Fair had gone. 

 Mr. Huntington told me that he knew where 

 one was, a gray mare, which was the best of 

 the lot. I lost no time in seeing this mare, 

 but it was several years before I found the rest 

 of them. I was continually hunting for them 

 and they were finally discovered in the posses- 

 sion of ]\Ir. Peter B. Bradley, of Hingham, 

 Massachusetts. 



Mr. Bradley is an eminent horseman, who 

 had accumulated, regardless of cost, some of 

 our own trotters of the finest blood as well as 

 thoroughbreds, hackneys and other types. 

 Many of his Arab horses had died, but all that 

 were left of the original lot Mr. Bradley 

 owned. On my first visit to his place, I bought 

 one of the bay stallions, and began to make a 

 study of the Arab horse from close range. I 

 bought some books on the Arab horse, and 

 found that probably the Chicago Arabs were 

 not what one would call desert horses, with the 



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