146 THE HORSE IN AMERICA 



ton and bred on his place, increase very much in 

 size and action. For instance, Khaled, when I last 

 saw him was 15.3 J hands, which is something like 

 a hand taller than either Naomi, his dam, or 

 Nimr, his sire. Here was an interesting instance 

 of inbreeding, as Naomi was the grandam of 

 Nimr, the sire of Khaled. Whether this increase 

 in size was due to inbreeding or to transplanta- 

 tion to a different climate than the desert, with 

 different and better food, I am not prepared to 

 say. But it is a striking change for the better. The 

 other horse I alluded to is Nimrod, now, I am 

 sorry to say, in the Philippines; he is more of a 

 pony or cob type — something, indeed, like the 

 earlier generations of Morgans, this type is most 

 admirable in light harness, or to use in the stud in 

 the creation of polo ponies. This horse was sired 

 by Abdul Hamid II, son of General Grant's 

 Leopard out of Mary Sheppard, an inbred Clay 

 mare. 



These Clay-Arabians are as remarkable for 

 their intelligence and docility as are the Morgans. 

 Their action is as clean and elegant and their 

 bottom cannot be surpassed. If this double ac- 



