altogether as a sound and useful animal because of the many causes that had been 

 for many years progressively co-operating to deteriorate. He might now almost 

 ask, 'Have we not lost him? Is he not bred out?' 



"A gentleman of racing proclivities recently mentioned to me, in discussing 

 the question, that on looking into the pedigree of Carbine, as far as it was possible 

 to trace it back, he found that it was so full of Arab blood as to be almost entirely 

 Arab, a remark which induced me to look up the pedigree of some of the old sires, 

 and I find that of almost all of them a similar remark could be made. For example, 

 Eclipse has among his ancestors : 



"Button's Bay Barb (two strains). 



"The D'Arcy Yellow Turk (four strains). 



"An old Morocco mare by an Arabian out of a Barb mare. 



"Button's gray Barb (two strains). 



"Leede's Arabian (two strains). 



"The Lister Turk (five strains). 



"The D'Arcy White Turk (five strains). 



"The Oglethorpe Arabian. 



"The Godolphin Arabian. 



"St. Victor's Barb. 



"The Fenwick Barb (two strains). 



"The Helmsley Turk. 



"The Chesterfield Arabian. 



"Wilkinson's Turk. 



"Fourteen distinct Arabs, many of them several times repeated, and many of 

 his other progenitors also full of Arab blood. 



"Again I ask, is it not therefore utterly absurd to pretend, as some people do, 

 that the English thoroughbred is a distinct English breed with just an occasional 

 infusion of Arab blood, as it were? 



"I will give you another example. Take Whisky, bred by the Prince of Wales 

 in 1789, greatly distinguished on the turf. I find in his pedigree seventy-four strains 

 of Arab blood ; thirty-four different Arabs are named. He had : 



"Eclipse (full of Arab blood as above mentioned). The Newcastle Turk. 



"Herod (full of Arab blood). 

 "Darley Arabian (four strains). 

 "D'Arcy Yellow Turk (two strains). 

 "Barb Mare. 



"Leede's Arabian (ten strains). 

 "Lister Turk (four strains). 

 "D'Arcy's White Turk (five strains). 

 "Button's Bay Barb. 

 "Godolphin Arabian (four strains). 

 "St. Victor's Barb (four strains). 

 "Fenwick Barb (four strains). 

 "Barb Mare. 



"Byerly Turk (five strains). 

 "Curwen's Bay Barb (three strains). 

 "Selaby Turk (three strains). 

 "Morocco Mare. 



An Arab Barb Mare. 



The Morocco Barb. 



Arab Barb Mare. 



White Legged Lowther. 



Morocco Mare. 



Brownlow Turk (two strains). 



Bright's Roan Arab Mare. 



Bethell's Arabian. 



The Harpur Arabian. 



Helmsley Turk. 



Acaster Turk. 



Ogelthorpe Arabian. 



Barb Mare. 



Place's White Turk. 



The PuUeine Arabian. 



The Byerly Turk. 



"Thirty-four or more distinct pure Arab ancestors, the blood of many of them 

 several times repeated, as in Eclipse, and many others, even if not, perhaps, entirely 

 Arab, yet full of Arab blood. Yet some people say that there is no good in the Arab. 



