THE ARABIAN HORSE. 85 



" Morgan was an Anglo-Arabian, and the dam of Dolly 

 Spanker, an in-bred Morgan mare ; American Star owes his 

 paternity to an Arab-sired Canadian pacer, and the name of 

 the thoroughbred Stockholm crops up in his pedigree. Gano 

 was by American Eclipse, who boasted the Arab strain, and 

 both Sherman Morgan and Buckshot were doubly in-bred to 

 Morgan. Henry Clay, a famous trotting stallion, was sired 

 by Andrew Jackson (also a famous trotter), a grandson of the 

 imported Barb Bashaw. So Axtell, sold some time ago for 

 the sensational sum of 105,000 dollars, is anchored on a solid 

 foundation of courage and endurance. 



" Mr. Huntington's efforts will be watched with attention, 

 and I, for one, heartily wish him all the success his imagina- 

 tion paints and his pluck deserves. A glance at the pedigree 

 of many of the best trotters in America, prior to the Civil War, 

 will show that the latent Arab trotting instinct was not slow 

 in developing itself in the New World. The Russian Orloffs 

 claim Eastern parentage. The Cleveland Bay, now so de- 

 servedly popular on the other side of the Atlantic, must have 

 a dash of the Anezeh in him. The Romans had Arab races 

 at Ebor, and the arrival of the Leeds and Darley Arabians 

 caused such a furore that the nobility and landed gentry of 

 the three Ridings vied with each other for the possession of 

 this potent element. For years after this Yorkshire horses 

 were practically invincible, till that famous Southerner, 

 Whisker said to have been as near perfection as need be 

 travelled north, and inflicted signal defeat on the stables of 

 the Tykes. By the way, I must mention that Catherina 

 (Whisker's famous daughter) ran no less than 171 races, and 

 died at the age of thirty-one. What racehorse of modern days 

 could stand such a ' bucketing ' as this ? 



" Very few quite first-class Arabs reach this country, hence 

 the unreasoning prejudice against them. The breed is said 

 to have deteriorated within the last thirty years, but, seeing 

 that it has successfully withstood several centuries of close in- 

 breeding, this cannot possibly be the case. The Sultan has, 



