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**In itself I cannot help considering 

 the line from the Godolphin Arab or 

 Barb a very poor one, and, like that from 

 the Byerly Turk, it really owes what 

 celebrity it may have, and its continuance, 

 to the infusions of blood it has received 

 from the descendants of the Darley 

 Arabian. It is worthy of remark, although 

 not extraordinary, that almost in pro- 

 portion to the amount of Darley Arabian 

 blood has been the success of the indi- 

 viduals of this line." 



By the end of the nineteenth century 

 it was capable of proof by statisticians 

 giving their attention to the subject, such 

 as Mr. Bruce Lowe and Mr. W. A. Allison 

 who had worked out the famous *' Figure 

 System" for the guidance of race horse 

 breeders, that of the winners of the 

 '' Classic " English races (the Derby, Oaks, 

 and St. Leger), since their establishment, 

 covering a period of a hundred years, 

 more than ninety-five per cent, were de- 

 scendants in the male line from the Dar- 

 ley Arabian, and thoroughly saturated 

 with his blood. 



