The daily gazette., 1879-06-19
WILMINGTON, DEL. THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1879.
Grants New Horses.

Washington Cor. Philadelphia Times
General Grants pair OF Arabian stall
lions, presented to him by the Sultan of
Turkey, arrived here two days ago. l
went yesterday with Milton Sayler to
have look at them. l confess l was
disappointed. The Horses were said to
have been selec' ed as the best out of
stud of seven hundred belonging to the
sultan, aud | expected to see something
remarkable. Instead l saw pair OF
small gray horses, which at firsI led me
to believe that we were being guyed by
some practical joker, but closer iDspec-
ton convinced my companion that the
horses were very line. They are both
far below in height Of the ordinary
horse, but they are thinner and longer
than our ordinary ponies and really look
frail. They do not seem to have the
chest anu leg muscles Of our race horses,
aud, Indeed, nothing In them indicates
the great endurance that Arabian horses
are said TO POSSESS. Ii they were not
General Grants horses, aud if they had
not come out of the Suitan's stables, the
pick of seven huniied, they would be
selected for handsome saddle horses TOR
lady. Leopard is the taller and hand.
sOmer of the two, but Linden Tree ap-
pears to be the stronger. The heads of
these horses are very intelligent, and
they have very pretty legs. The eyes of
Leopard are decidedly Eastern, and have
the dropping eyeids and the languid
look one en- secs i'll Turks. The
names and tales of the stallion are thin
and fine and short. The heavy name
and tail seen in pictures of Arabian
horses are lacking In these originals. The
merit in these hOrsOs is said to be in their
endurance and economy in food and
drink. In four generations it is said
they greatly imp-Oyexour stock and that
all our best horses trace their genealogy
back to the Arabs. Mr.. Sayle told me
that he knew Rarey, the great st of
horse breakers and one Of the best judges
of horses ever in this country.
He said that Rarey took "Cruiser," :" ths
most vicious and unmanageable OF
horses, with whom he went abroad, and
even went to Egypt with him. While in
Egypt Rarey put "Cruiser" against tho
Arabian horses on the desert sands and
he was never able TO find ali equal to
him either In speed or endurance. Grants
two Arabian stations may be marves in
horsefiesh, but to.an unpractised eye they
do not show 1t. u. neral Ned Beale, our
late minister to Austria, himself one OF
the best Judges of horses in the country
has taken the stations to his fine farm
In Marylan", near this city, General
Grant having consigned them to him as
the safest custodian to them. What
Gen. Grant will do with these costly AMI
mails l am not prepal ed to say. Ii seems
to me that their passage from Constant
noplc to this city would cost more than
they are worth. They have never had a
harness on them, but both have been
broken to saddle. Of course the horses,
one six and the other five years old, will
have to be broken over again, for the
colured groom told Inc that one of them,
when he took him out of tine stable, walk
ed only on his hind legs, aud yet seemed
very anxious to get away. If these are
| good horses, they are the only good ones
General Grant ever owned. While very
fond of horses, aud frequently proferrinl
their company to that Of gentle men, yel
General Grant is not judge of horses
He can no more tell the good points of q
horse than a congressman can tell wher
the two houses will adjourn. Aud ht
does not seem to have any appreciation
of the properties in hors es. For eigh,
| years while he was president he drove
bis grand old war horses Cincinnati and
Egypt, who carried him from Vicksburg
TO Appomattox, to big landau in thi.
CITY, and little sympathy they got and
little reward for all their service in the
rebellion.