The failure of King James the First's Arabian, the Markham Arabian, to 

 produce anything desirable was a result that seems to me most natural. For 

 history bears no evidence of there having been any Arab or Arab-Barb horses 

 in England prior to the Markham Arabian, and it is therefore most evident that 

 the Markham Arabian's matings were most certainly of a heterogeneous char- 

 acter, for the mares could not possibly have been other than a conglomeration 

 in blood and breeding, likely some mixtures of Spanish, Flemish, etc. 



The reader will note that each succeeding importation of Arabian blood gave 

 results that were nothing short of marvelous. It will be noticed that King James 

 was not discouraged with his results with the Markham Arabian, for he purchased 

 another Arabian some time later on, known as Place's White Turk, which horse 

 no doubt had the advantage of being bred to offspring of the Markham Arabian, 

 for he left some valuable results, as was the case with the "Royal Mares" and 

 stallions imported by Charles the Second, which did not only have the advantage 

 of being bred to their own blood in King Charles the Second's Royal stud, but 

 which also received the advantage of being bred to the get of the Markham Arabian 

 and also to that of Place's White Turk and others imported by James the First. 

 The celebrated Byerly Turk Arabian landed in England about 1689, which was, 

 according to history, about seventy to eighty years after the importation of the 

 Markham Arabian and Place's White Turk, and likely forty or fifty years after 

 the establishment of Charles the Second's Royal stud. 



The Stradling or Lister Turk Arabian also likely arrived in England some time 

 prior to the Byerly Arabian. The world-renowned Darley Arabian landed in 

 England about eleven or twelve years after Byerly Turk. 



The great Godolphin Barb-Arabian came to England about twenty-five or 

 thirty years after the Darley Arabian, hence it can be plainly seen that the Arabian 

 blood which had accumulated up to and including the reign of Charles the Second 

 was such as to give each succeeding importation of Arabians and Barbs a better 

 and better chance to produce good breeding results by the gradual creation of 

 brood mares that were kindred in blood with the succeeding imports. 



It seems only natural that the three king Arabs should most naturally suc- 

 ceed as they did, and still more to be expected they should have been much more 

 productive than their predecessors, for England had accumulated much horse- 

 flesh that was homogeneous to the blood of the three king sires as they appeared 

 in England. 



From the time of the debut of the three kings, Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian 

 and Godolphin Arab, 1689, 1700 and 1730 respectively, horse breeding of the 

 blood horse (Anglo-Arab) of England budded and blossomed as it did a little later 

 in the United States under very similar conditions, and v/here the same sort of 

 blood was being used from 1750 to 186 1. The beginning of the Civil War 

 was the means of losing us much of the splendid blood we had previously 

 gained. For there were in the neighborhood of 250 Arab and Arab-Barb bred 

 horses imported into the United States from 1750 to 1825. (I quote this from 

 memory of calculations which I made from Bruce's First American Stud Book 

 some years ago, which I believe is exactly correct.) 



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