44 "GENERAL BEALE," " HEGIRA," "ISLAM," 



Arabian blood used by England and France for their separate, distinc- 

 tive national horses. 



I have also shown that our most positive and valuable horses for the 

 road or sporting uses, were the more closely related to Arabian blood. 



One of our drawbacks from progress as a nation in all scientific 

 studies is the want of means by the individual, and the pellmell rush of 

 every man to get rich. Money, money, money, is the tocsin for every 

 lad, or man ; or, " Is there any money it ?" " Is there any money in it ?" 

 Our country is too fast; the corners of the fences are not cultivated, 

 when in them are acres of the richest land. 



" Haste is waste." I was prepared for the arrival of General Grant's 

 Arabs. I believed, as will any American, that they must be of the 

 highest possible type. No empire or nation would insult itself by pre- 

 senting to so great a man, also the one representative man of so great 

 a nation as ours, an inferior gift from its representative animal life. 

 General Grant's Arabs had to be the purest and best. 



The best results obtained by any crosses are not through abrupt, 

 but by affinity crosses, with the instinct bending in the way you want. 

 The Arab being plastic, reinforces a high type of man's creation by its 

 more vitalizing blood. To breed it to the race-horse, makes that blood 

 hotter and stouter in its instinct established ; and so with any other 

 high forms of man's creation. Bread is not flour, nor is flour wheat ; and 

 yet except for the wheat there would be neither flour, bread, cake, nor 

 pie. So in breeding ; there must be the wheat, the seed ; the life. In 

 horses it is the Arabian seed, blood, and life from which man can create. 



I have implied that extreme physical conformations and develop- 

 ments, with rigid instincts as created by man, are very difficult to 

 change. 



We wanted a national horse of a type which should conform itself 

 to our greatest demands ; which were stage, coach, road, and for track 

 uses as trotters. 



We could not afford to mould over the running-horse to such pur- 

 poses ; indeed, time and money have proven it too uncertain. 



We had the trotting instinct already moulded to a type we wanted ; 

 what we needed was to build this type up to a degree of superiority ; 

 and the only way was to reinforce it with fresh, pure blood from the 

 cause, — i.e., Arabian blood ; this General Grant had been sent from 

 abroad in his two Arabian stallions, and he offered it to his people. 



Upon their arrival the only blood we had adapted for good, prompt 

 results, was that of Henry Clay. Its physical and instinctive organs 



