84 MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



maintained notable Arabian studs in recent years. In 

 recent years the most prominent breeders are or have 

 been Homer Davenport, Holmdel, Nevir Jersey; Peter B. 

 Bradley, Boston, Massachusetts; Richard W. Tully, 

 Pleasanton, California; Spencer Borden, Fall River, 

 Massachusetts; and the Hartman Stock Farm, Colum- 

 bus, Ohio. These are breeders of pure Arabs and their 

 combined studs represent a total of over lOO head of 

 horses in this country. Some of these v^^ere imported 

 from Lady Blunt's stud and some by the Hamid Hippo- 

 drome Company (who showed their horses at the Chicago 

 World's Fair) and others. Huntington was the pioneer 

 at this kind of breeding. Davenport and Borden im- 

 ported direct from the Bedouins. 



Notable Arabian horses. — The desert-bred Arab stallion 

 Kismet was perhaps the most noted. He was imported 

 to England by Rev. F. F. Vidal of Needham Market, Suf- 

 folk, England, who was offered $20,000 for him by the 

 French government, but declined the offer. Huntington 

 tried repeatedly to buy Kismet, but finding it impossible 

 to purchase him outright arranged a contract to bring him 

 to the United States. The contract provided heavy 

 bonds, including one in Lloyd's insurance agency, for 

 Kismet's safe return to England, in addition to a large 

 fee for use in Huntington's stud. 



Thus bonded, Huntington imported Kismet in 1891. 

 The journey proved a hard one, and on his arrival Kismet 

 was sent to the Cattanach infirmary. New York city, with 

 a temperature of 106, resulting from pleuro-pneumonia, 

 and died a few hours later, causing great financial loss to 

 Huntington. Kismet's skeleton, said to be one of the 

 most remarkable ever seen, is preserved in the American 

 Veterinary College, 151 West Fifty-fourth street, New 

 York City, and used as a specimen in clinical lectures. 

 Other famous stallions are El Emir, Maidan, Kouch, 

 Kars, Shahwan, Himyarite, Anizeh Khaled and Haleb. 

 Among the mares Haidee, Keziah, Naomi, Nazli, Naarah 



