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Title: The pure Arabians and Americo-Arabs (Huntington horses); a catalogue containing history, opinions and suggestions relative to the Arabian horses and horse breeding
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: (Lawrence, James A.)
Subjects: Arabian horse
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, Hartman Stock Farm
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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In such cases purchase is impossible. The review of Englands past horse breeding history which is contained inthese pages is not given with any belief that it is at all new to well-posted studentsof horse breeding affairs. I believe it is a history, however, that should not beforgotten by anyone who may wish to excel in horse breeding, for it contains somuch valuable experience and such an endless amount of good lessons and dem-onstrations in favor of the two great desert breeds, which have ever proven tobe the very quintessence of all that is great and prepotent in the horse kingdom.I also hope I may be pardoned for extensive quotation, for I desire that those whoread this pamphlet shall know how the Arabian horse is regarded by most-eminentauthorities—those who have devoted endless time, pains, labor and research inmastering this deep and interesting subject; for is it not true that a perfect knowl-edge of the past is essential to a better understanding of the future? The shadows
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The original and famous Americo=Arab Stallion CLAY KISMET Sire Nimr by Kismet (desert hred^. Dam the six-times inbred Clay mare Gipsy Clay by Simmons Clay, by Walker Clay, byHenry Clay. Foaled May ji, iSgj. Color red chestnut. Height 16-2. Bred byMr. Randolph Huntington. The property of Hartman Stock Farm. s j of the past yield knowledge more readily than the undecipherable unwrittenpages of the future. We must, therefore, review the past and mark well eachcorrect pathway in our breeding careers, by the guide boards of past experienceand accomplishments. The world-renowned desert-bred *Darley Arabian, bred to the Arabian mareBetty Leedes, produced Englands greatest race horse. Flying Childers, who waslikely the greatest of all of Englands marvelous achievements in the creation ofreproducing races of animal life. Not only is England the greatest horse breeding country in civilization, butshe is also just as pre-eminently the leader in classified breeding of cattle,sheep, swine and dogs

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