The Arabians of written record
Seward's Arabians By Ben Hur (Western Horseman Sept/Oct '45) Maanake Hedroge Abraham Lincoln, as a youth, may have been too poor to own a horse. Historians invariably picture him as walking long distances through southern Indiana and central Illinois. Lincoln has been sculptured more often possibly than any other American, but never astride a horse as so many of the other immortals. Do you recall …
by Ben Hur (Western Horseman Mar/Apr'44) Raffles, by champion Skowronek, out of champion Rifala. Friends and students of Arabian horses will be deeply interested in the report that the castle and estate of Count Potocki in war-harassed Poland have been saved from destruction. A deep American interest in the Arabian horses of Poland arises from the fact that during the past ten years or so the …
by Ben Hur (Western Horseman Mar/Apr'45) Nadirat No. 619, chestnut Arabian mare owned by Ben Hur Farms, whose pedigree is presented on this page, is a striking example of the result of many generations of pedigree, line-breeding. It will be noted that nine names appear more than once in her pedigree. Nine (marked with asterisks) of the 16 ancestors in the 5th generation have as a common ancestor …
by Ben Hur (Western Horseman May/Jun '47) General U. S. Grant of Civil War (U.S. 1861-65) fame and twice elected president of the United States, did not live to know that an Arabian stallion presented to him by Sultan of Turkey became many years later, the earliest Arabian stallion to be registered in the stud book of The Arabian Horse Club of America. It was one of those queer quirks of fate by …
by Ben Hur (Western Horseman May 1950) Chicago's World Fair, 1893, officially known as the World's Columbian Exposition, was the focal point from which interest in the Arabian horse was created, which eventually culminated in the formation of the Arabian Horse Club of America, 1908. From the importation of 1893 for the exposition, a mare, *Nejdme, and a Hadji Hassan, renowned expert on Arabian …
by Ben Hur (Western Horseman Jul/Aug '46) additional pictures added One of five Arabian stallions imported by A.Keene Richards direct from the desert between 1852 and 1857. The picture is a reproduction of a painting made in 1867, owned by H.P.Crane, St. Charles, Illinois. Left, in the picture, is Gen. Richard Taylor; center, Capt Cuthbert Slocomb; right, Mr. Richard's groom. The American …
from The Arabian Horse News Sept. 1975 Editor's Note: The following material was taken from The Horse by William Youatt, published in 1888. Often times today our perspective gets a bit distorted as to what the Arabian was like 100 years ago and as to what was known of its history at that time. Although modern Europe owes so much to Arabia for the improvement in her breed of horses, …