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tion of facts relating to the earliest exotic horses that were 

 brought in is to be found in the English Stud Book itself, and 

 as but few of my readers have access to this work, I will copy- 

 that portion of it entire, as it appears in the first volume, and 

 the edition of 1803. In the edition of 1808 the list was reprinted 

 with four additional animals and some verbal changes, which,, 

 when important, will be noted. 



''ARABIANS. BARBS AND TURKS." 



1. The Helmsley Turk was an old Duke of Buckingham's and got Bus- 

 tler, etc. 



2. Place's White Turk was the property of Mr. Place, studmaster to Oliver 

 Cromwell, when Protector, and was the sire of Wormwood Commoner, and 

 the great grandams of Windham, Grey Ramsden and Cartouch. 



3. Royal Mares: King Charles the Second sent abroad the master of the 

 horse, to procure a number of foreign horses and mares for breeding, and the 

 mares brought over by him (as also many of their produce) have since been 

 called Royal Mares. 



4. Dods worth, though foaled in England, was a natural Barb. His dam, a 

 Barb mare, was imported in the time of Charles the Second, and was called a 

 Royal Mare. She was sold by the studmaster, after the king's death, for 

 forty gu neas, at twenty years old, when in foal (by the Helmsley Turk) with 

 Vixen, dam of the Old Child Mare. 



5. The Stradling or Lister Turk was brought into England by the Duke of 

 Berwick, from the siege of Buda, in the reign of James the Second. He got 

 Snake, the D. of Kingston's Brisk and Piping Peg, Coneyskins, the dam of 

 Hip, and the grandam of Bolton Sweepstakes. 



6. The Byerly Turk was Captain Byerly's charger in Ireland, in King 

 William's wars (1869, etc.). He did not cover many bred mares, but was the 

 sire of D. of Kingston's Sprite, who was thought nearly as good as Leedes; 

 the D. of Rutland's Black Hearty and Archer, and the D. of Devonshire's 

 Basto, Ld. Bristol's Grasshopper, and Ld. Godolphin's Byerly Gelding, all in 

 good forms: Halloway's Jigg, a middling horse; and Knightley's Mare, in a 

 very good form. 



7. Greyhound. The cover of this foal was in Barbary, after which both 

 his sire and dam were purchased, and brought into England by Mr. Marshall. 

 He was got by King William's White Barb Chillaby, out of Slugey, a natural 

 Barb Mare. Greyhound got the D. of Wharton's Othello, said to have beat 

 Chanter easily in a trial, giving him a stone, but who, falling lame, ran only 

 one match in public, against a bad horse; he also got Panton's Whitefoot, a 

 very good horse; Osmyn, a very fleet horse and in good form for his size; the 

 D. of Wharton's Rake, a middling horse; Ld. Halifax's Sampson, Goliah and 

 Favorite, pretty good 12-stone Plate hordes; Desdemona, and other good 

 mares, and several ordinary Plate horses, who ran in the North where he was 

 a common stallion and covered many of the best mares. 



8. The D'Arcy White Turk was the sire of Old Hautboy, Grey Royal, 

 Cannon, etc. 



