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Millionaires Importing Arab Horses

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
February
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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Aruong our millionaircs who have used up pretty nearly evcry field of exravngance there is a growing faucy for 'uil blood Arabian horsos. Every one vho wishes (o maintain bis posilion in ociety uow is seeking ai) animal of luowq pedigree fresh frora the deserts of Arabia. A number of tho very lincst horses in the world have beeu imported to meet the demand of tliia sudden fashion, which was set by Mr. Ben net t, Jr., who drives a full blooded gray Arabian, perfectly peerlcss iu points, style, action and genera! beauty. Georgo Wilkes owns another, a .hort remove Erom the magnificeuao of thia. Jerornc talks of one or two lie has secured, and which are on the way hither undergoing the orde al of a pea VOjage. The rage for the very best style of animal in biood and lineage lias become so great that the re i-s being offered a supply to cqual in some degree the dciuanH. Mr. Postar, a well known eonnoi.sfeur in 'norse flesh, has a very fine Arabian stalüou, whicli he offers for e-At', at, of eourse, a high iigure. Thii wonderful stied - by Dame Satd - is claimed to be i relativo of the famoua Janizeur, Ihat It-apcd the citadel walls witli the last Mameluke Bey, when fleeing froin Maliomed, in 181Í). Which í plungiiig into and riding oper history, Mr. Foster, at a hand gallop. Wbat the rest of the Arabians owned by our mülionaires can io must be somclhing frightful after this lias been taken for gospel truth. A cir :us pciformacce of Arabian steeds, lidJen b_v their jwnors, at Jerome Park, night not be uninteresting if ihey be eally capable of such woudcis. - N. Y. Star.

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Old News
Michigan Argus