1 1 Russian stallions. There were last year 660 brood mares 

 and fillies, of which 35 were Russian, 93 Hungarian and 

 the remainder native-bred. 



The officer in charge of the stud is a Colonel, who has 

 under him a military staff. 



The second stud is that of Sultan Sou, between 18 and 16 

 miles from the town of Malatia, in the province of Harpout, in 

 the interior. It controls an area about 600 miles square, 

 which includes 32 villages, having some 5,000 inhabitants ; 

 part of this area is given up to agriculture and the remainder is 

 devoted to horse-breeding. 



The Sultan Sou stud was founded in 1861 and was 

 reorganised in 1889; attached to it is another farm — that of 

 Osman Dide— where there are enormous hill pastures, to which 

 the droves of horses are sent in summer. There are at 

 Sultan Sou 12 pure Arab stallions, 6 Kurdish and i Hungarian ; 

 7 pure Arab mares, 21 Kurdish and 12 Hungarians. The 

 object of this establishment is the improvement of the Kurdish 

 breed of horses : the number of Kurdish brood mares will this 

 year be increased to 200 ; how many mares of this strain are 

 running at large in the district is unknown. 



The Tehoukourova stud owes its name to a once famous 

 breed of horses which is said to be now nearly extinct. It is 

 situated in the province of Adana, which is bounded on the south 

 by the Mediterranean, and consists of two vast estates, one 

 covering 197,680 acres, or about 20,000 acres more than the 

 county of Middlesex, and the other covering about 74,160 

 acres. The larger estate consists of prairie land comparable to 

 the pampas of South America ; the second, and less extensive, 

 lies on the shores of the Mediterranean, and along the mouth, 

 of the river Djihan which flows into it. 



This stud was established in 1892. There are now eight 

 pure Arab stallions, three Kurdish, and five horses described as 

 " Anatoliotes," obviously after the province of Anatolia in 

 Western Asia Minor. There are 21 pure Arab mares and 62 of 

 the Tehoukourova breed. Many native horses also run at large 



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