| Owner: 1) Hassana d'Gris 2) George Barclay 3) Bagdad Company of Nashville
Sent to England from Aleppo via Tripoli by Hassana d'Gris, ambassador of the Bashaw of Tripoli to England, d'Gris stating that he was one of twelve Arabians that had travelled from Aleppo to Marseilles in 1819, of which six became the property of the French government and six remained with d'Gris. He also said he had refused £1000 for Bagdad in France and that Bagdad was his favourite and by far the most valuable of his six horses. Bagdad was purchased by the London merchant George Barclay and sent to New York in spring 1823. He covered at Woodbridge, New Jersey and, after being purchased for $8,000, from 1824 to 1834 near Nashville, Tennessee
"A beautiful brown bay horse, precisely one-fourth of an inch under fifteen hands in height; imported into Tripoli, from the city of Aleppo; well shaped in hte general, but rather light in the head quarters"
Sire of a number of mares which bred on, but none with enduring significance
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br. H, 1812
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