IMPORTATIONS OF ARAB HORSES 



is the only Arab horse I have seen that ever 

 showed any real pretence toward the trotting 

 gait. This horse can road from twelve to fif- 

 teen miles an hour, and keep it up all day. 

 Mr. Bradlev used his horses constantly; drove 

 them as well as rode them, played polo on them, 

 and their performances have amounted to more 

 in the few years that he had them, than those 

 of all the rest of the Arabs that ever came to the 

 country. The other imported horses, up to 

 that time, and for some years later, had been 

 kept in their box stalls only to be admired as 



idle pets. 



The two stallions which were presented to 

 General Grant when he visited the royal stables 

 at Constantinople, were both grays. Mr. 

 Huntington had used both stalHons on his 

 farm, after they were taken to the Genessee 

 Valley, and thence to Beatrice, Nebraska, 

 where they both died. "Leopard," a light 

 gray, broke his leg and had to be killed, while 

 "Linden Tree" lived for several years after, 

 dying in 1900. General Colby, who owned 

 them at the time of their death, crossed them 

 largely with western mares, and bred some 

 very fine colts. 



Among the breeders of Arab horses in 



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