146 MY horse; my love. 



purity of Naomi's blood. The late Captain Roger 

 Upton, of the English Army, who lived frequently 

 among the Arabs, and was an enthusiast about pure 

 horses, himself purchased both her parents at great 

 cost from the Gomussa tribe, in the Euphrates val- 

 ley. Naomi was foaled a few days after their arrival 

 in England. Her sire was Yataghen, 14.3, and her 

 dam Haidee, also 14.3. Both these were Maneghi, 

 considered in the desert the choicest of all families. 

 They have, as a rule, finer action, and if. possible, 

 a greater amount of wear and tear in them. On 

 the other hand, they are a little larger and coarser 

 in the head sometimes, than, for instance, the 

 Seglawi Jedran. An alliance between the last-named 

 family and the Maneghi is simply perfect, so far as 

 blood goes. Owing to the system of Naomi's rearing 

 she is the largest pure Arabian I have seen, being 

 i^}4 hands high." 



English breeders did not relish the idea of her 

 being sent here, I've heard. 



'*No, but her owner, the Rev. F. F. Vidal, of 

 Suffolk County, England, was so interested in the 

 efforts of this company to breed pure Arabs (and 

 because of his illness induced to relinquish his stud) 

 that he at last listened to the petitions for her and 

 sent her over. Her colt, Gomussa, now in Chili, 

 was by Kouch. All race-horsemen in America, as 

 well as England, know that the opinion of the cele- 

 brated jockey, Fred Archer, was of great value. He 

 rode Kismet in his English races, and pronounced 

 him the gamest horse and best finisher of a race he 

 had ever ridden." 



