History in brief of "Leopard" and "Linden," General Grant's Arabian stallions, : presented to him by the sultan of Turkey in 1879Also their sons "General Beale," "Hegira," and "Islam," bred by Randolph HuntingtonAlso reference to the celebrated stallion "Henry Clay." . nger than Leopard. There were two reasons for this difference in the countenance:First, the depression over the eyes in Linden was greater, which featureis said often to indicate advanced years in sire and dam when the foalwas got. This would be evidence that the blood of Linden was verychoice, for all breeders wish to get from
History in brief of "Leopard" and "Linden," General Grant's Arabian stallions, : presented to him by the sultan of Turkey in 1879Also their sons "General Beale," "Hegira," and "Islam," bred by Randolph HuntingtonAlso reference to the celebrated stallion "Henry Clay." . nger than Leopard. There were two reasons for this difference in the countenance:First, the depression over the eyes in Linden was greater, which featureis said often to indicate advanced years in sire and dam when the foalwas got. This would be evidence that the blood of Linden was verychoice, for all breeders wish to get from their choicest-bred animals aslong as is possible, even to extreme old age; and some of the finesthorses I have ever seen have been produced by dams thirty-six andone thirty-eight years old. If I did not know these to be facts I wouldnot repeat them in this book. To intensify the effect of depression over the eyes in Linden werelarge black markings or rings around them, which at a little distancemade him look at this time very old ; with me, from what I now knewof Arabian horses, these marks intensified his blood value. I quotefrom Sir Wilfrid S. Blunt, in Lady Anne Blunts beautiful work entitledThe Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates: These black markings are ?y. J E be (3 < -= c: a ?= T3 3 ex Q H 3 < £ O -0_ £ K i—i 0) J C a < LEOPARD AND LINDEN TREE. j, held by the Arabs of the desert as evidence that the animal is of thethoroughbred Bint El Ahwaj breed, descending from the children ofIshmael, and from which breed came the Godolphin Arabian, and whichGodolphin Arabian was in part founder of the French Percheron horse,also of the best strains of the English thoroughbred running-horse ; andto which Godolphin Arabian imported Messenger was three times closebred, and very close at that in both sire and dam. Of course Arabianstatements are traditionary, but facts in that country go strongly tosupport their traditions. This breed of which I am speaking, identifiedby the b
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