72 THE DIFFERENT BREEDS OF ENGLISH HORSES. 



More than twenty years after the Darley Arabian, and when the value of the 

 Arabian blood was fully established, Lord Godolphin possessed a beautiful but 

 singularly -shaped horse which he called an Arabian, but which was really a 

 Barb. His crest, lofty and arched almost to a fault, will distinguish him from 

 every other horse. 



It will likewise be seen from the cut, (p. 18,) that he had a sinking behind 

 his shoulders, almost as peculiar, and a corresponding elevation of the spine 

 towards the loins. His muzzle was uncommonly fine, his head beautifully set 

 on, his shoulders capacious, and his quarters well spread out. He was bought 

 in France, where he was actually employed in drawing a cart ; and when he 

 was afterwards presented to Lord Godolphin, he was in that nobleman's stud a 

 considerable time before his value was discovered. It was not until the birth of 

 Lath, one of the first horses of that period, that his excellence began to be 

 appreciated. He was then styled an Arabian, and became, in even a greater 

 degree than the Darley, the founder of the modern thorough- bred horses. He 

 died in 1753, at the age of twenty-nine. 



An intimate friendship subsisted between him and a cat, which either sat on 

 his back when he was in the stable, or nestled as closely to him as she could. 

 At his death, she began to refuse her food, and pined away, and died. Mr. 

 Holcroft gives a similar relation of the attachment between a race -horse and a 

 cat, which the courser would take in his mouth and place in his manger and 

 upon his back without hurting her. Chillaby, called from his great ferocity 

 the Mad Arabian, whom one only of the grooms dared to approach, and who 

 savagely tore to pieces the image of a man that was purposely placed in his 

 way, had his peculiar attachment to a lamb, who used to employ himself for 

 many an hour in butting away the flies from his friend. 



Another foreign horse, was the Wellesley Arabian ; the very picture of a 

 beautiful wild horse of the desert. His precise country was never determined. 

 He is evidently neither a perfect Barb, nor a perfect Arabian, but from some 

 neighbouring province, where both the Barb and Arabian would expand to a 

 more perfect fulness of form. This horse has been erroneously selected as the 

 pattern of a superior Arabian, and therefore we have introduced him : few, how- 

 ever, of his produce were trained who can add much to his reputation. 



Also the distance from the root of the tail to the stifle. 



Also the length from the stifle to the hock. 



Also the height from the extremity of the hoof to the hock. 



Twenty parts of a head, the distance from the extremity of the buttocks to the stifle. 



Also the breadth of the rump or croup. 



Ten parts of a head, the breadth of the fore-legs from their anterior part to the elbow. 



Ten parts of a head, the breadth of one of the hind-legs taken beneath the fold of the buttocks. 



Eight parts of a head, the breadth of the ham taken from the bend. 



Also the breadth of the head above the nostrils. 



Seven parts of a head, the distance of the eyes from one great angle to the other. 



Also the distance between the fore-legs. 



Five parts of a head, the thickness of the knees. 



Also the breadth of the fore-legs above the knees. 



Also the thickness of the hams. 



Four parts of a head, the breadth of the pastern, or fetlock joint. 



Also the thickness of the coronet. 



Four and a half parts of the head, the breadth of the coronet. 



Three parts of a head, the thickness of the legs at their narrowest part. 



Also the breadth of the hinder legs or shanks. 



Two and three-quarter parts of a head, the thickness of the hind-pasterns. 



Also the breadth of the shanks of the fore-legs. 



Two and a quarter parts of a head, the thickness of the fore-pasterns. 



Also the breadth of the hind-pasterns. 



One and three-quarter parts of a head, the thickness of the fore and hind shanks. 



