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the groom, whilst running a sweat at Ashton, near Lancaster. Within 

 these few months, a Horse fell dead at Newmarket, I believe, in his 

 exercise. Such examples might be multiplied, and ought to be re- 

 ceived, and treasured up in the memories of riders, training-grooms, 

 and proprietors of Race-horses, that no precautionary inspection, or 

 after-care in riding, may be omitted, and that all possible attention be 

 shewed to the safety and feelings of an animal of such exquisite worth 

 and let me add, often of such exquisite sensibility, as the Race- 

 horse. In every unfortunate and unavoidable case of this kind, the 

 carcase ought to be opened by a surgeon, veterinary or not, and the re- 

 sults of his inspection recorded in the Stud Book. 



TheGoDOLPHiN Arabian. See page 108. With respect to the ori- 

 ginal picture of this Arabian at Gogmagog, I have, by the favour of 

 Sir Charles Bunbury, the opportunity of making the following extract 



from a letter of Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne to Sir Charles. 



I beg at the same time, most respectfully to acknowledge the libera- 

 lity of the noble Lord, in his readiness to furnish information, and for 

 the offer of his portraits of Racers, for the use of this work. His Lord- 

 ship observes, " I have a picture by Wootton, of the Bloody-shouldered 

 Arabian, and one of the Godolphin Arabian, by the same hand. No 

 picture by Seymour, was ever here in my time, and if the picture which 

 I found here in the library is genuine, all the prints and pictures 

 I have seen, are very erroneous. I much doubt my picture being the 

 Godolphin Arabian, as I have a known original given me lately by Lord 

 Townshend, which was done by a person sent by the late Lord, from the 

 animal himself, and which differs entirely in every point, from the pic- 

 ture in the library here, alluded to by the author of the Stud Book. This 

 picture ofLordTownshend's, gives the same idea of the Horse, as all the 

 prints. Sec. &c. 1 have a picture, by Wootton, of an Arabian mare, given 

 by Louis XIV. to Lord Petre; likewise, one by the same artist, of 

 Childers." It is thus ascertained, on the best authority, that Stubbs' 

 copy is from a genuine original, but not from the picture in the li- 

 brary. 



The Godolphin Arabian, it has been said, was imported from Bar- 

 ■bary by Mr. Co'ke; but by later intelligence it appears, the importation 

 wa« by the way of France ; and the Editor of the Stud Book, according 



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