HORSE AS “ UNDESIRABLE.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3294, 12 August 1911, Page 11

HORSE AS “ UNDESIRABLE.”

EFFORTS OF GIANT ARAB STEED TO FIND' A HOME .

The most-travelled horse in the world is Saladin, a giant Arab stallion ay ho has just found a resting place m London—at Tattersali’s. Saladin was found at Damascus by the veteran Scotting-Austi alian horse dealer, Mr. Thomas Leannonth, who found him to be 15.1 bands high and the biggest Arab ho had ever seen. So he bought Saladin, intending to ship him to Australia. But the laiv of the Turkish Empire prohibits the exportation of Arabs 0A r er 14.2 hands high. It Avas therefore necessary to telegraph from Beyrout to Constantinople for permission to export. Permission Avas refused. Mr. Leannonth then arranged Avith the dealer to send the giant steed over the. desert to Egypt. Saladin travelled in a camel train, the journey occupying twentythree days. When Saladin arrived at Port Said he was paid for and shipped to Australia. But it is a-s hard for an Arab to get into Australia as it for him to get into Syria. Saladin came from the East and he Avas. not allowed to land. So tills Avandering Arab was shipped to England, a journey of 18,000 miles. He arrived at Tilbury, and is now being boarded at Tattersali’s.