Word: arabian
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...years ago. In 24,900,000 years Eohippus grew up to the size of the modern horse, went wandering across America into Asia, across Asia, down into Africa. There the Libyans tamed him. From this horse is descended the race of pure-blooded Arab horses, famed for fleetness, which Arabian breeders still guard jealously. Some of his cousins went to France, were also tamed. These French cousins, distinguished by 24 vertebrae (the Arab has 23), begat the common modern horse. The Arab, meantime, was taken to Spain by the Moors. The Spaniards took him to America, thus completing...
California dust billowed behind a lumbering coach-&-four as it careened into a ring at the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch at Pomona one afternoon last week. At the reins was Captain William Banning, pioneer stage driver. Beside him on the box was grinning Will Rogers. Inside the coach, holding tight, sat California's cowboy-booted Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. and Cereal Manufacturer Will Keith Kellogg (corn flakes), owner of the ranch. Bands played, a crowd of actors, actresses, ranchers and California citizens great & small cheered as Mr. Kellogg climbed down from the coach...
What made the gift particularly valuable was not so much the 750-acre ranch or the $600,000 endowment that went with it, but the 87 blooded Arabian horses whose raising is the prime activity of the Kellogg ranch. Though probably not in a class with the studs of Prince Mohammed Ali of Egypt and England's Baroness Wentworth, the Kellogg stud at Pomona raises some of the finest Arabian horses in the U. S., has done much to improve the strain of western saddle horses...
...year-old whose sire Skowronek narrowly escaped being hanged as a royalist in the Russian revolution. Other famed Kellogg horses: Jadaan, who carried the late great Rudolph Valentino on his cinematic sheiking expeditions; Pep and Rossika, trick horses; King John, said to be the only desert-bred Arabian...
...better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains to the desert's edge. Shaikh Salih went ahead to organize a relay, prepare the desert ways. So well did he prepare them that the final dash through enemies...