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MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



America few have been more prominent than 

 Mr. J. A. P. Ramsdell of Newburgh, who 

 purchased the finest of the World's Fair mares 

 in "Ned j ma." Mr. Ramsdell later bought 

 Garaveen," sired by the great racing Arab, 

 Kismet," out of "Cushdell Bey," the Rev. 

 F. F. Vidal's favorite Arab mare in England. 

 "Garaveen" sired some very fine types out 

 of the mare "Ned j ma," and also out of her 

 daughter by "Shahwan." "Garaveen," at the 

 present writing, is the only living son of the 

 great and unbeaten "Kismet." 



For a number of ^^ears Mr. Spencer Borden, 

 of Fall River, Mass., bred Arabs. He had 

 received some mares from the Hon. Miss Dil- 

 lon, of England, and had bred from Mr. Hun- 

 tington's stallions; later, purchased from Mr. 

 Bush Brown, the sculptor, the Russian Arab 

 "Gouinad." 



This horse was brought to the World's Fair 

 in Chicago, in 1893, in the Russian Govern- 

 ment exhibit, and would rate as a high-class 

 Arab, though not of pure blood, tracing, on 

 one side, to a Turkoman cross. Mr. Borden's 

 recent importations, however, from the Blunts, 

 were all very fine blood, and mostly of the 

 Kehilan Ajuz familv. 



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