The Crabbet Arabian Stud, also known as the Crabbet Park Stud, was a horse breeding farm established on 2 July 1878 when the first Arabian horses brought to England by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt arrived at Crabbet Park, their estate in Sussex. Six months earlier, while staying in Aleppo, Wilfrid and Lady Anne had made a plan to import some of the best Arabian horses to England and breed them there. In Lady Anne's words, "it would be an interesting and useful thing to do and I should like much to try it."
Read more about Crabbet Arabian Stud: Travels in Arabia, Egypt, Difficulties Under The Blunts, Crabbet Under Lady Wentworth, Crabbet Under Cecil Covey, The Legacy of Crabbet
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