the value of Arabian blood is unpardonable at the present time in the face of the 

 history of past horse breeding in England, America, Russia, etc. The Markham 

 Arabian does, however, appear in the pedigrees of the thoroughbred of today. 



James the First showed more signs of being a good breeder than any of his 

 predecessors, for he immediately bought another Arabian horse which afterwards 

 figures so conspicuously in English horse breeding, known as Place's White Turk, 

 from a Mr. Place, who afterwards was fortunately connected with horse affairs 

 under Cromwell, who also encouraged the breeding of Arabian horses. 



Charles the Second's succession to the throne proved a most fortunate and 

 beneficial event in horse breeding affairs of England, for he encouraged the 

 introduction of Arabian and Barb blood. The efforts of James the First with 

 Arabian blood was evidently in strong evidence during the reign of Charles the 

 Second, for he (Charles the Second) sent his master of horse affairs East and pro- 

 cured a lot of Arabian and Barb stallions and mares which along with many of 

 their produce are referred to in English pedigrees as "Royal Mares," etc. One 

 of the Royal mares, dam of the celebrated Dodsworth, was a pure Barb, foaled 

 in England. She was sold when twenty years old in foal by the Arabian Helmsley 

 Turk. The quotation from the London Field, as given by Mr. Randolph Hunt- 

 ington in his "Memoir of General Grant's Arabian Horses," which we give in 

 part, shows the number therein contained in the year 1643. 



The Royal stud above referred to at — 



"Tutbury fell into the hands of the Parliamentarians some time prior to July, 

 1643, as on the 236. of that month four government commissioners, viz : Mildemay, 

 Lempricre, Carteret and Grafton, arrived at the stud for the purpose of making a true 

 inventory of the race horses kept there, being part of the late king's personal 

 estate. Their inventory shows twenty-thiee mares and their foals, fifteen mares 

 four years old and upwards, sixteen three-year-old fillies and colts, seventeen two- 

 year-old fillies and colts, twenty-two yearling fillies and colts, and twenty-three 

 horses four years old and upwards; one hundred and thirty-nine head, all told." 



The above were the result of the importation of Arabians, Barbs, etc., by 

 James the First, Charles the Second and others, including some of the blood of 

 the Markham Arabian. 



Weatherby's stud book shows that the Stradling or Lister Turk (most likely 

 an Arabian pure and simple) was brought into England during Charles the Sec- 

 ond's reign by the Duke of Berwick from the siege of Buda. 



During the reign of William the Third the celebrated Arabian stallion Byerly 

 Turk was the first of the three great and prepotent Arabian horse kings which stand 

 today as the three most important horses known in modern horse breeding an- 

 nals, known as Captain Byerly's charger in King William's wars of Ireland, 1689. 



The second of the three kings was the Darley Arabian, who is always alluded 

 to as a genuine Arabian imported from Aleppoby by a brother of Mr. Darley, of 

 Aldby Park, Yorkshire, about the end of the reign of William the Third. The 

 exact date of the importation of this wonderful horse is not known beyond the fact 

 that it occurred about 1700. The third horse of the three kings and famous trio 

 was the Godolphin Arabian or Barb, which landed in England about 1725 to 1732. 



