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the first half of the eighteenth century. Roxana 

 was by Bald Galloway, her dam sister to Chan- 

 ter by the Alasker Turk from a daughter by 

 Leedes's Arabian and a mare by Spanker. Here 

 we see again the value of these crosses of Oriental 

 blood. From the mating of the Godolphin Barb 

 and Roxana also came Cade, the sire of Regulus, 

 the grandam of that most marvelous horse, 

 Eclipse. When all this had happened the English 

 were sure they were on the right road. And they 

 have kept on that road with great persistency, 

 not going back, however, in my opinion, fre- 

 quently enough to the pure Nejdee and Berber 

 stock for fresh infusions. That they have not 

 done this is natural enough, however. A breeder 

 wants results quickly. To get a collateral strain 

 from fresh Arab and Barb blood equal to the pres- 

 ent thoroughbred would probably take fifty 

 years. No private breeder cares to do that. And 

 the English government does not officially breed 

 horses. The French, the Austrians and the Rus- 

 sians all, however, have agents in Arabia trying 

 to buy the animals that are best suited to do just 

 what I have suggested. And they all succeed. It is 



