Arabian horses and Arabian-Barb horses, and Anglo- Arab horses (later bred 

 and interbred to become known as English thoroughbred horses), such as Mes- 

 senger, Diomed, Duroc, American Eclipse, Sir Archy, Boston and Lexington, as 

 above indicated, found their way to America. Thoroughbreds of that day did 

 not possess the positive and unchangeable blood influence of the thoroughbred of 

 today. They were the Anglo-Arab. Their blood as handed down to the present 

 day through the thoroughbred families has become an impressive and an un- 

 changeable quantity, and the present thoroughbred does not possess the pliable, 

 plastic and blendable qualities that were contained in the Anglo-Arabs, such as 

 Messenger, Diomed, Duroc, American Eclipse, etc., above referred to, in the cre- 

 ation of other blood than a Derby race horse. Their ancestors, the pure Arab 

 and Barb, are for many reasons preferable to the present thoroughbred in the 

 breeding of horses for all purposes other than the running race horse. 



No one familiar with the English thoroughbred blood influence of today would 

 dream of a thing as impossible and as ridiculous as to try to create new reproduc- 

 ing types of horseflesh with the English thoroughbred as a principal factor. The 

 *"Dame Sang" (half-breed) of France, or as commonly called in America the 

 French Coach Horse, is a vivid illustration of the utter failure of the English thor- 

 oughbred to create a reproducing race of horses. The Cleveland Bay is another 

 instance where the thoroughbred failed to create a reproducing race of horses, for 

 the failure of both the French Coach and Cleveland Bay is on every hand well 

 known in America. 



The Arabian and Barb blood is today, as it was a thousand years ago, pure 

 and pliable as the gold ore of the Rocky mountains, capable of creating a repro- 

 ducing metal in horseflesh for any purpose one may like, while the breeding by 

 selection for one purpose only, and that to run, and inbreeding and reselecting 

 and inbreeding for ages, all for one instinct to run, as the English thoroughbred 

 was created, with many cold blood infusions in the beginning, all of which was 

 equal to the heating and cooling and heating and cooling process which hardens 

 steel, makes the thoroughbred of England today a piece of hardened or tem- 

 pered steel which has necessarily departed from the pliable ore from whence it 

 came — the Arab. 



As I have said, the breeding of the Anglo-Arab (later known as the English 

 thoroughbred breed) fairly budded and blossomed after the first quarter of the 

 eighteenth century, which will ever remain a monument of wonderful horse 

 breeding skill to England, for Arabian and Arab-Barb blood steadily flowed into 

 England from the beginning of the reign of James the First (1603), to about the 

 end of the reign of William the Third or the beginning of that of Anne, somewhere 

 near 1732, which brings us to a point where England was well on the way in the 

 breeding of a blood horse. 



I know of no authentic history of any horse breeding age in modem civil- 

 ization that equaled what was accomplished by England between 1700 and 1800, 



*"Dame Sang" (half -breed) , French Coach created by crossing of Norman and English thoroughbred. 



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