THE SADDLE BREEDS OF HORSES 135 
centuries before the time of Mohammed. Early in the 
seventeenth century, Arab horses were brought to Eng- 
land, and in the eighteenth century the importations were 
numerous. These exerted considerable influence on the 
development of the Thoroughbred and the Hackney. 
157. History in America. — The first record we have of 
the Arab in America was the importation of the stallion 
Ranger, about 1765, to New London, Connecticut. In 
1838, J. D. Elliott imported a number of both sexes. The 
late A. Keene Richards brought them to Georgetown, 
Kentucky, in 1856. His plant was making the most rapid 
strides toward success, when it was destroyed by the Civil 
War. The blood of his horses, however, is found in the 
present Kentucky saddle horses, six and seven generations 
back, and there is little doubt that much of the beauty of 
that splendid animal to-day is traceable to the horses that 
A. Keene Richards imported. The next importation was 
the two stallions given to General U.S. Grant by the 
Sultan of Turkey. These were of unknown families, but 
they sired many beautiful and useful horses. 
A number of Arabian horses were brought to the World’s 
Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893. The Sultan 
was induced to permit these horses to come to America for 
the exhibit, and through mortgages they were eventually 
held. Nine were burned to death in their stalls at the 
Exposition by the Syrians that brought them, as the out- 
come of a wrangle. From these horses, however, came the 
best results from any Arab horses brought to America. 
Most of them were bought by Peter B. Bradley, of 
Hingham, Massachusetts, who crossed them on some 
of our best breeds, besides breeding them in their purity. 
With a pure horse of his breeding, Mr. Hess, of New York 
City, won the only blue ribbon ever won over our own 
