Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-06-25
GRANTS ARABIAN HORSES.

General Graut's pail of arabian stsf-
lions, presented by the Sultan of Tur-
Key, arrived here two dayssgo. lwent
yesterday with Milton Sayler to have q
look at them. confess ! WAS disap-
pointed. The horses were said to have
been selected as the best out CT stud
of seve5 hundred belonging to the Sui
tan, and expected to see something
remarkable. Instead saw pair Of
small gray horses, which at 6rst led ne
to believe that We we're being guyed t9
some practical joker, but closer lnspeo-
tion convinced my companion that The
horses we're very fine. They are both
far below in heigh, of the ordinary
horse, but they are thinner aud longer
thsn our ordinsry ecnies, and really
look frail They do not seem to have
the chest and leg muscles Of our race
horses, and indeed, nothing in them in
dicates the great endurance that Ara
bian horses are said to possess. Ii they
we're not General Grants horses, and If
they had not come out OF the Sultan's
stables, the pick cf seven hundred, they
would be selected Cor handsome saddle
horses for lady. Leopard is the tall
, er and handsomer Of the two, but Lin
acn Tree appears to be the stronger.
The heads Of these horses are very in-
telligeut, and they have very pretty
legs. The eyes of Leopard are decid-
edly Eastern, and have the dropping
eyelids aud the languid look one often
sees in Turks. The mares and tails Of
the stations are thin and fine and short.
Tie heavy name aud tail seen in pic
lures Of Arabian horses are lacking IN
these originals. The merit IN these
horses Is said to be in their great en-
durance and their economy in food and
drink. Iu four generations it is said
they greatly improve our stock, and
that all our best borses'trsce their gene
alogy back to the Arabs. Mr.. Ssyler
told me that he knew Rsrey, the great
est of horse breakers and one of the
best judges of horses ever in this cOun-
try. He sand that Rsrey took "Crui-
SER" the most vicious and unmanage-
able of horses, with him when he went
abroad, and even went to Egypt with
him. While in Egypt Rarey put
"Cruiser" against the Arabian horses
on the desert sands, and he was never
able to find an equal to him either IN
speed or endurance. Grants two Ara
biau stations may be marvels in horse
flesh, but to an unpracticed eye they do
not show it. General Ned Beale, our
late Minister TO Austria, himself one of
the best judges Of horses in the coun-
try, has taken the stations to his fine
farm in Maryland, near this city, Cen
eral Grant having consigned them to
him as the safest custodian OF them.
What General Grant will do with these
costly animals am not prepared to say.
Ii seems to me that their passage from
ConstantinOple to this city would cost
more than they are worth. They have
never had a harness on them, but both
have been broken 70 saddle. OF course
the horses, one six AMI the other FIVE
years old, will have to be broken over
again, for the colored groom told me
that one of them, when be took him out
Of the stable, walked only on bis bind
legs, and yet seemed very anxious to get
away.-From H. J. X. in .NcCIwe's
Times, June 18th,