32 The Hokse Industry in New Yokk State 



future possibilities in heredity 

 My observation leads me to believe we can produce an American 

 Arab oa* Thoroughbred — whichever it may be decided to call the 

 family having the additional size and the anatomy and proportion 

 of the Arab — which, by reason of this increase of size and 

 shortening of back, will be a more enduring and better horse than 

 either of his ancestors. To accomplish results on such lines certain 

 individuals must be selected for anatomical research, and their 

 skeletons preserved in some museum so that those who follow the 

 investigation may do so from generation to generation. It cannot 

 be accomplished by any haphazard or catch-as-catch-cau method. 

 To show the value of continuous careful study, let us review the 

 influence of the Arab on horse breeding of the last few centuries 

 in this country. 



REVIEW 



The influence of Arab blood in this country goes back to colonial 

 times when all the importations of race horses to this country 

 had been bred in England, from the ten recently imported Arab 

 sires. The one who had the greatest influence on Anierican horses 

 was Messenger, who was thrice a grandson of Godolphin Arabian 

 and also bred to Byerly Turk, Greyhound, Curwan Arab, and 

 Darley Arabian. He was imported in 1788, and all Thorough- 

 breds, all Trotters, All Kentucky Saddle Horses- — and one may 

 safely say all the horses that are good for anything — carry the 

 blood of Messenger. 



Scarcely less important was the importation from the desert 

 of the stallion Grand Bashawj who came a few years after 

 Messenger and was mated to his daughters. In ISll he was bred 

 to Pearl, the daughter of First Consul who was herself six times 

 bred to Godolphin Arabian and caiTied the blood of Byerly Turk, 

 Laads Arabian and Darley Arabian. The produce was Young 

 Bashaw who was bred to the descendants of Messenger, and thus 

 produced the families of Andrew Jackson, Long Island, Black 

 Hawk, and Henry Clay, 



All the Trotters of this country carry the blood of Grand 

 Bashaw and the best of them go back to him on almost every line 

 of ancestry. 



