Arab Horses Outside of Arabia ii 



the East is a long one, the '' Royal Mares" 

 being at the foundation of the English 

 thoroughbred horse of to-day. It was 

 in the reign of Queen Anne, however, 

 that the famous Darley Arabian was sent 

 from Aleppo by Mr. Barley's brother a 

 merchant of that city, procured by him 

 near Palmyra from the wandering Be- 

 douins. Within twenty years the papers 

 have been found which came with this 

 famous horse, confirming the independent 

 information obtained by H. M. Consul 

 General at Aleppo, concerning the family 

 to which the horse belonged. 



The Byerly Turk was brought to Eng- 

 land some years before the Darley Ara- 

 bian, and the Godolphin Arabian came 

 a few years after him, in 1726. These 

 three horses of Eastern origin have always 

 been considered the blood that produced 

 the modem English race horse, the 

 Arabians being the more prized. John 

 Lawrence wrote in 1809: 



'' But the fame of these two great 

 Arabians, the Darley and Godolphin, 



