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the running turf in America and England to-day. 

 The dam of Flying Childers was also rich in Ori- 

 ental blood, as she was an inbred Spanker and 

 Spanker was by D'Arcy's Yellow Turk from 

 the daughter of Morocco Barb and Old Bald 

 Peg, the latter being by an Arab horse from 

 a Barb mare. So we see that this first great 

 English race-horse was almost of pure Eastern 

 blood. 



Of Markham's Arabian we only know that he 

 met with the disapproval of the then Master of 

 Horse, the Duke of Newcastle, and had scant 

 chance. Of the Godolphin Barb we know very lit- 

 tle previous to his coming to England, where he 

 was held in such little esteem that he was used as 

 a teaser for Hobgoblin. We are told, however, 

 that he was first taken to France and held of 

 such little account that he was used as a cart horse, 

 in Paris. He was finally brought to England about 

 1725, and became the property of Lord Go- 

 dolphin. He was a brown bay, 15 hands high, and 

 with an unnaturally high crest. He served Rox- 

 ana in 1731, the produce being Lath, next to 

 Flying Childers the greatest horse in England in 



