IMPORTATIOXS OF ARAB HORSES 



America from the Blmits. The best staUion 

 of the lot was a small white Dahman Shah wan, 

 an imported horse brought from Abbas Pasha 

 in Cairo by the Blunts, and sold later to Mr. 

 J. A. P. Ramsdell, of Xewburgh, N. Y. But 

 after he had sired one j)ure Arab filly out of 

 the gray mare "Nedjma," of the Chicago 

 World's Fair importation of 1893, he died. 



To the World's Columbian Exposition, at 

 Chicago, came several mares and stallions from 

 near Damascus, under a special permit of the 

 Sultan of Turkey. By the direction of the 

 Sultan, the so-called Hip2)odrome Company, 

 which imported the horses, was to return to the 

 desert after the fair was closed. But that was 

 never done. The company became entangled 

 in debt, and eventually the horses were sold at 

 public auction, most of them being bought in 

 by the holders of a mortgage. Previous to the 

 foreclosure, through a religious wrangle, nine 

 of the verv finest horses and mares were burned 

 to death in an incendiary fire, together with all 

 their pedigrees excei3t one. That pedigree 

 belonged to the finest animal of the lot, the 

 gray mare called "Nedjma." It was taken to 

 California by a young Syrian, who hoped to 

 get a reward for its return. The horses were 



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