92 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



as in Eclipse, and many others, even if not, 

 perhaps, entirely Arab, yet full of Arab blood. Yet 

 some people say that there is no good in the Arab ! 



All the old sires will be found, speaking generally,, 

 to be equally full of Arab blood. Mr. William 

 Osborne, as I have mentioned, gives the names of 

 the 173 Arab sires which, he states, were intro- 

 duced into England from the reign of James I. 

 down to the beginning of the nineteenth century. 

 I have not troubled to take out the pedigrees of 

 the stallions and mares in either of the above 

 pedigrees which I have not specially mentioned as 

 being Arabs, but, as I have said, I think there can 

 be little doubt but that many of them will be found 

 be quite as much Arabian ; and then it must be 

 remembered that the English running horse before 

 the time of the Darley Arabian and the Godolphin 

 Arabian or Barb must have been largely Arab. 



Web, Whalebone, Woful, Wire, and Whisky, the 

 great family progeny of Waxy and Penelope, bred 

 about 1 790, have sixty-eight strains, including thirty- 

 two different Arabs named. 



Blacklock, of whom it has been said that no 

 horse in England is a stayer who has not got 

 his blood, has forty-three strains of Arab blood. 

 Touchstone, a comparatively recent horse, bred when 

 racing men were beginning to drop the Arab blood, 

 has got twenty-one strains of recognised Arab 

 blood, and Sir Peter fifty-nine strains of Arab blood. 

 Tramp has fifteen different Arabs mentioned. 



