IMPORTATIONS OF ARAB HORSES 



My own importation reached America on 

 October 8, 1906, and consisted of ten mares 

 and seventeen stallions. Two of the stalHons 

 belonged to C. A. Moore, Jr., and one to J. 

 H. Thompson, Jr. Another stalHon which 

 JNIr. Thompson bought in Beyrout reached 

 America about ten days after my importation, 

 and only a few days previous to the National 

 Horse Show in New York City. He was en- 

 tered by Mr. Thompson in the class for sires 

 of polo ponies, and in competition with seven, 

 won third prize. This stallion, mind you, was 

 competing against thoroughbreds and was at 

 a disadvantage, being in reality too large for 

 the class. He was a three-year-old bay, stand- 

 ing fifteen hands high. 



James W. S. Langaman brought to Amer- 

 ica, in 1903, a golden buckskin stallion with 

 black mane and tail, standing fifteen hands 

 three inches. He came to my farm from the 

 steamer, and remained there several months be- 

 fore being shipped to Governor Francis, in 

 St. Louis, at the opening of the World's Fair. 

 Mr. Langaman at that time returned to 

 Morocco and came back with six scrubs, the 

 rankest mongrels that ever crossed the ocean. 

 He purchased them at Tangiers, possibly pay- 



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