MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



this ignorance. One lady was very much sur- 

 prised at seeing bay, gray and chestnut horses 

 shown. 



"All the Arabs I have ever seen working on 

 hearses," she said, "were coal and black." 



Another declared that her father had bred 

 Arab horses as long as she could remember and 

 that instead of being small they were large 

 and spotted like leopards, with long flowing 

 manes and tails. Another woman, who 

 claimed to have been the secretary to General 

 Colby, of Beatrice, Nebraska (the gentleman 

 who owned the Grant stallions at the time of 

 their death), said: 



"For more than twelve years I rode the 

 Grant stallions every day; I am quite 

 astonished to see horses shown as Arab horses 

 that are bay. I supposed all Arab horses were 

 exactly like the two presented to General 

 Grant, snow white, with pink skin and blue 

 eyes." 



Circuses are, perhaps, more to blame for the 

 misrepresentations of the Arab horse than 

 anything else. I have a friend who owns a 

 circus, and I saw his posters a few years ago, 

 claiming that he was exhibiting the only Arab 



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