3 GENERAL GRANT'S ARABIAN STALLIONS, 



of May and June, 1885, in " Dunton's Spirit of the Turf," published at 

 Chicago, and in the " California Breeder and Sportsman." 



These two articles created a demand for a publication to include my 

 sketches of General Grant's Arabians. As my Clay History would be 

 delayed a long time for want of means to reproduce my eighty sketches 

 representing that family, I decided to yield to the demands, and publish 

 a book devoted to General Grant's Arabs, in so handsome a style as to 

 become a souvenir to the memory of Grant, and encourage what he 

 would have liked to do for the horse-breeders of America. The gen- 

 eral was a great lover of horses, and often remarked that " he saw no 

 reason why America should not have a national horse ; but that to 

 produce one they must go to the primitive root, the same as did Eng- 

 land and France, also Russia, — i.e., the Arabian." While his extreme 

 modesty prevented him from suggesting that his stallions be freely 

 used, I knew him to be very much pleased that I undertook what I did, 

 at the time I did, and in the way I did ; but the dear good man will 

 never know what it has cost me, mentally and financially, through 

 popular prejudice, the mighty and cruel executioner of the individual. 



I will now devote my pen to the two horses Leopard and Linden 

 Tree. The two names as I give them are the English translation of 

 the Turkish ; but in speaking of them, the word Tree is left off, making 

 the names as given the two stallions, Leopard and Linden. 



These two stallions arrived in this country May 30, 1879. They 

 were first heard of in Philadelphia, where they were exhibited in Gen- 

 eral Grant's name. 



Early in the spring of 18S0 I went to Washington, D. C , to see 

 and to examine them, also to learn if I could breed to them. 



•General E. F. Beale, a lifelong true and warm friend of General 

 Grant, also a great horse-lover, had the two horses upon his beautiful 

 farm "Ash Hill," just outside the city, and near to the Soldiers' Home. 



Unfortunately, General Beale was in California, looking after his 

 large interests upon the Pacific ; but I learned that Paymaster J. Adams 

 Smith, of the Navy Department, had the Arabs in charge, and was also 

 a most thoroughly informed horseman. I called at the Naval Pay- 

 Office, found the officer disengaged, and enjoyed a long and interesting 

 conversation with him upon Arabian as well as other horses in the 

 East, and all over the world in fact, for they seemed to have been a 

 special study with him at every port he had visited. 



It may surprise some of our so-called horse-breeders that a naval 

 officer, who had spent most of his days at a naval academy or on board 



