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Childers, Hutton's Grey Childers, Hobgoblin, Jigg, Whitenose, Ma- 

 Tiica, Lamprey, Partner, Royal, Sorehcels, Small's Childers, Tifter, 

 Woodcock, Young Belgrade, and Young True Blue. 



Since the above period, we have had the Compton Barb, or Sedley 

 Arabian, the Cullen, Coomb, Gibson, Bell, Damascus, Northumber- 

 land, Vernon, Oxlade, Newcombe, and many other Arabians, some 

 Barbs, and other foreign Horses, In a recommendatory advertise- 

 ment of the Damascus Arabian, it was stated, that he was of * the 

 purest Arabian breed, without any mixture of the Turcoman or Barb :' 

 which shews the fashionable opinion in 1773. 



But the fame of the two great Arabians, the Darley and Godolphin, 

 has almost swallowed up that of all the rest ; and our best Horses, for 

 nearly a century past, have been either deeply imbued with their blood, 

 or entirely derived from it. They have produced stock of vast size, 

 bone, and substance, and at the same time endowed with such extra- 

 ordinary, and before unheard-of powers of Jspeed and continuance, as 

 to render it probable that individuals of them have reached nature's 

 goal, or ultimate point of perfection. The descendants of these Ara- 

 bians have rendered the English coursers superior to all others, not 

 only in the race, where indeed he had long excelled, but as breeding 

 stock ; and this country has no longer any need of foreign supply, the 

 breed being fully established both in quality of blood and sufficiency 

 of numbers. This cause has indeed long operated against the many 

 foreign Horses which have been introduced, and which have all, since 

 the Godolphin Arabian, proved vastly inferior to our native stallions. 

 In all probability, they have been, the far greater part, of mixed or 

 spurious races ; nor can the import of such Horses, at a risk, possibly 

 render any fair chance of utility or profit at the present time. Never- 

 theless, like the purchaser of a lottery ticket, by the twenty thousand 

 pound prize, the importer of a Horse from the Levant, expects to draw 

 a Godolphin Arabian; a chance certainly not impossible. 



To such of my readers as are unacquainted with the short history of 

 that justly celebrated Horse, the following particulars respecting him 

 will not be unacceptable. He was in colour a brown bay, somewhat 

 mottled on the buttocks and crest, but with no white, excepting the 



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