The Washington herald., 1911-03-05
All the Gossip of Interest Golfers and HorsemenBoang

stallion Mokhladi in the saddle stock OF
| the State, in the pedigree of Bingen,
2:06A, and in the pedigree OF other illus
trious sires, brood mares. and in many
performers on the turf.
Mr.. Huntington began his operations
| to lay a foundation for an Americo-Arab
family about forty years ago at Roches-
| ter, n. Y. He began by inbreeding the
sons and daughters. and in sofIe cases
the grandsons and granada lighters. OF
Old Henry Clay s. he being 4 lineal de-
| scendant of the imported barb Of Tripol,
known as Bashaw, and founder OF that
! useful family known as Bashaw. Henry
/ Clay 8. known also as Wadsworth's
| Henry Clay. and owned by a member OF
| the somewhat celebrated family of that
name whose land holdings in the fertile
| Genesee Valley amount to about 1000
! acres, was the founder of the now noted
! Clay family to which belong Electioneer.
! The Harvester. Bingen, and numerous
| ether turf celebrities.
The Patchens. now extinct as, A family.
hut which was founded by George NJ.
atchen. 2:2219 was also member OF
the Clay family, was also that fam
lily that harks back on the maternal side
TO the greatest brood mare in turf his
tory, beautiful bells
Mr.. Huntington's breeding venture
would have gained more popular favor.
perhaps. than it did had Mr.. Hunting
ton personally been more popular. He
was the most persistent, and doubtless
the most powerful champion of the Clay
strain Of blood in this country. He owned
the old horse after the Wadsworths
parted with him. Mr. Huntington was
about the first man in the State Of New
Al
KUt in his zeal he severely criticised
nearly every other sire in the State
that did not carry Clay blood and this
raised up bitter resentments that are not
laid even at this late day. Hambletnn-
ian 10 was characterized as Bill Rvs
dyck's bull" CognOmens quite as COM
plimentary were applied to other sireS.
and so it came to pass that every time
MIR Huntington exposed his head there
was always somebody at hand TO give it
an upper cut.
To return from this ancient turf history.
II may be said of Mr.. Hopes venture
that if the horses portrayed in his cata-
logue are one-haIf as handsome ast
their portraits they are worth
travelling many miles to inspect.
Nothing in the way of horsefiesh are
more beautiful that we have yet seen.
II is Mr.. Hoopes' hope that in time the
United States government will take over
his stud and breed horses for the cavalry
service. Aside from the romance and
poetry attached TO the Arab, he has
many virtues to commend him. His
great lack is size. but he is COncededly
the biggest horse of his inches that
walks. or has ever walked, the earth.
He lies at the foundation of the English
thoroughbred, which is the proEenitor
of the American horse of that species.
Every thoroughbred must trace his
lineage in an unbroken line, paternally
and materially, to the Darley and Godal-
phin Arabians and to the barbs that
were introduced into England in the
times of the two Charles and James l.
Every pure bred Arab is eligible to reg
istry in the English and American thor
oughbred stud books. 1t is the proud
boast of the Bedoun of the desert that
the lineage of his steed can be traced in
an unbroken line to the stud of King
Solomon, and ii is well known to all
importers OF the blood horse that it is
extremely difficult to purchase stallion.
Of the most popular strains from the
desert tribes. while the mares are treas
ured like the rarest gems.
In fact, without special permission or
the Sultan of Turkey neither stations or
mares are permitted to leave the Coun-
try As matter of local interest, the
Arab stallion Leopard, imported by Gen
L. S Grant in his trip around the world.
presented to him by Abdul Hamid II. is
the foundational blood of the Hunting
ton stud. Leopard was A daPple gray,
a bout II hands high. and. peculiar as it
may seem, almost all of his descendants
are red ChestnutS. For some years after
his arrival in this country he did service
at the farm of the late Gen. +. +. Beale.
which farm was located about five miles
north Of this city. Leopard died at Beat
rice. Nehr.. few years since at the ad-
vanced age of thirty.
Largest Morning Circulation.