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ihdt the Mussulmans are fully equal at a cross, ^vitli the best of us true 

 Christian-Jiiig'Hsh jockies. Got b\^ Rabbainy, out of Lahalidah, is 

 quite sufficient. The sire and dam ai'e presumed to be known, or re- 

 puted thorough-bred stock : for exami)le, as if we were to say here, got 

 by Sorcerer, out of Eleanor. It is obvious, that whether the Horse ol- 

 lered for sale, be intituled to such pedigree, would be best ascertained 

 in the country where such Horses are bred, where their breeding is the 

 chief national concern, and the authenticity of the pedigrees of their pe- 

 culiar breed of Horses, is an ol)ject of the utmost importance to their 

 interest. 



To speak of our English pedigrees, the subject is not always correctly 

 understood, even by persons practically conversant in Horses. A Horse 

 is seen with a shew of blood, and a pedigree with two or three names ; for 

 example, his sire and the sire of his dam, and perhaps his grand-dam, and 

 those sires all reputed racers. Yet, such is plainly not the voucher of 

 thorough blood, for although the sire and grandsire be bred, the 

 dam and grand-dam may be only half-bred ; as, got by Fergus, dam 

 a half-bred daughter of Jalap, grand-dam a half-bred daughter of Pilot. 

 A true racing pedigree requires, that every sire and dam throughout, be 

 of full blood, and that the last named, if not English bred, should be 

 Arab, Bai'k, Turk, or Persian ; the latter somewhat equivocal, although, 

 we find Persians in some of our best pedigrees; and the longest pedi- 

 o-ree, if it finish without mention or assurance, as to the mare, is not 

 quite satisfactory. For instance, the last stallion to be Place's white 

 Turk, and the mare not mentioned, it might have been a Flanders 

 mare. Most truly, this is rather matter of curious, than indispensable- 

 precision, since some of the mares in the pedigree may have proved' 

 themselves racers, the main point; and at any rate, the Flanders blood 

 would have been com[)letely washed out, in so long a course of true 

 blood. 



1 have stated the claims of the Persian Horses, as coursers, to be equi- 

 vocal, have omitted those of the Spaniards, and totally rejected the Hun-- 

 garians, in that light. But Admiral Matthews's Persian, in 17^9, was the- 

 sire of a winning racer, called liozinante, and perhaps half a dozen Per- 

 sians have been since introduced, but Avithout success. The only modern^ 

 .• instance 



