88 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



England at this time, and eventually stallions of 

 every breed of the East were grafted on the British 

 horse. He states that the importer of that very 

 celebrated progenitor of our best blood, the Darley 

 Arabian, succeeded in ' establishing ' the Arab cross 

 effectually, and in engrafting that race upon the 

 English, and thus completed the working of a 

 system which, under careful management, had given 

 us the desiderata of speed, stamina, beauty, and 

 soundness, up to the period when the result from a 

 new organization of the racing code of laws began to 

 show its sad and lamentable effects upon, not only 

 the highest order of horses, but throughout the 

 various breeds of importance, derived largely from 

 turf blood. I maintain that the Arab breed was 

 partly ' established ' before the Darley Arabian, but 

 the point of this opinion of Mr. De Vere Hunt is 

 the ruin caused by sprinting — the new organization 

 of the racing code. 



The ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' further states that 

 in the ninth year of his reign Edward received from 

 the King of Navarre two running horses, and 

 Henry VHI. imported horses from Turkey, Naples, 

 and Spain. Then what Mr. De Vere Hunt has 

 stated as to Charles 1 1, warmly espousing the introduc- 

 tion of Eastern blood into England, and sending his 

 Master of Horse abroad to purchase, is alluded to, 

 and it is said that it is indeed impossible to find an 

 English racehorse which does not combine the blood 

 of all three — i.e., of the Byerly Turk, the Darley 



