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ber of Arabian studs of importance have been maintained 

 in England and America. In England the late Major 

 Upton and the late Henry Chaplin, Minister of Agricul- 

 ture, maintained pure Arab studs, both of which were 

 sold. Lady Anne Blunt of Crabbet Park, near Three- 

 bridges Station, Sussex County, England, and her hus- 

 band/Sir Wilfred, are the largest breeders of pure Arab 

 horses in England, and for 20 years or more have bred. 



FIG. 57.— ARABIAN MARE "HAMRA" 



with the greatest care, the best stock that the desert has 

 ever furnished the outside world. In the summer of 

 191 1, Henry K. Bush-Brown saw about fifty head of pure 

 Arabians in the Blunt stud. These were divided into 

 seven different sub-families and possessed superlative 

 merit. In addition. Rev. F. F. Vidal and Miss Ethelred 

 Dillon also have studs in England. 



In America, Randolph Huntington of Oyster Bay, Long 

 Island, New York; Peter Heyl of Milwaukee, Wiscon- 

 sin ; and J. A. P. Ramsdell of Newburgh, New York, have 



