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the years 1 730 and 1 73 1 , and on the latter refus- 

 ing to cover Roxana, she was put to the Godolphin 

 Arabian, and from that cover produced Lath ; 

 the first horse the supposed Arabian got. 



Lath was one of the finest horses of his day, 

 and was pronounced by the most skilled, at that 

 time, to be the best that had appeared at New- 

 market for many years previous to his time, 

 Childers only excepted. The Godolphin Arabian 

 died at Hog-Magog in Cambridgeshire in 1753, 

 being supposed to have been then in the 29th year 

 of his age, and is buried in a covered passage, lead- 

 ing to the stable, with a flat stone over him, with- 

 out any inscription. At his interment, ale and cake 

 were given, as at that afterwards of the celebrated 

 race horse Eclipse. 



There is an original portrait of this remarkable 

 horse, by Seymour, in the collection of the Mar- 

 quis of Cholmondeley, at Houghten Hall, Norfolk, 

 and another picture of him with his favorite cat, 

 in the library at Hog-Magog, in Cambridgeshire. 

 He was represented in all the prints of the day 

 with his favorite cat, and such was the regard 

 existing between them, that the cat really pined 

 to death for the loss of the horse. 



The Godolphin Arabian was remarkable also for 

 the almost unnatural highness of his crest, as ap- 

 pears in the wood-cut. The Duke of Portland, it 

 is well known, once possessed a horse with the 

 same singularity. 



