Breeder and sportsman . e or less of mythical four stallions, Obeyran I., Obeyran n., Mahrussand Xedjran, are certainly beautiful horses, and dis-tinctly a different type from any other that I haveknown. They are horses of a fixed type that hasbeen fixed for hundreds of years, horses whose pedi-gree traces pure and undefiled to 1635 B. C. to one ormore of five mares owned by the Sheik Salaman,fourth in descent from Ishmael, son of Abraham,who was driven with his mother Hagar into thedesert With us a thoroughbred animal is consideredone that has five or more crosses of thorough bl
Breeder and sportsman . e or less of mythical four stallions, Obeyran I., Obeyran n., Mahrussand Xedjran, are certainly beautiful horses, and dis-tinctly a different type from any other that I haveknown. They are horses of a fixed type that hasbeen fixed for hundreds of years, horses whose pedi-gree traces pure and undefiled to 1635 B. C. to one ormore of five mares owned by the Sheik Salaman,fourth in descent from Ishmael, son of Abraham,who was driven with his mother Hagar into thedesert With us a thoroughbred animal is consideredone that has five or more crosses of thorough blood;with the Bedouin a horse must trace in an unbrokenline to an ancestor that lived 3,500 years ago to be athoroughbred, or keheilan, which is the Arabicword for thoroughbred. These stallions of the desert cannot fail to be ofgreat value in the production of saddlers, cavalryhorses, etc., when mated to common trotting bredand running bred mares, and when bred to the ordi-nary mustang mare or small thoroughbred the best. OBEYRAN I. polo pony in the world will result. Their swiftness,endurance and courage, together with weight-carry-ing ability, make them all that can be desired in anyclass of horse that goes under saddle, and the factthat they are so strongly and intensely bred in linesof a fixed type running back for centuries will in-sure the certain transmission of their valuable qual-ities to their descendants, even to those carrying onlytwenty-five per cent, or less of the blood of theirdesert-bred progenitor. The famous gray charger that carried GeneralWashington through many battles of the Revolution-ary War was sired by the desert-born stallion Ranger,that also sired the fearless and sure footed steed thatcarried General Israel Putnam to safety down aflight of one hundred steps when he made his miracu-lous escape from the British. Obeyran I, the magnificent whie stallion at ElRancho de Las Rosas, is now thirty years old, butno one would guess him to be one-half that age
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