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exists in his great perfection originated from a cross of the Arabian Barb and Turkish 

 horse, the representative scions being the Godolphin and Darley Arabians; the former 

 generally conceded to be a "Barb," was the sire of Lath, Cade, Regulus, Blank, Ba- 

 braham, Bajazet, Old England, etc. It is said Mr. Coke brought him from France, 

 and that he had actually drawn a cart in the streets of Paris. Mr. Coke gave him to 

 Mr. Williams, keeper of the St. James Coffee House, by whom he was presented to 

 Lord Godolphin, hence his name. He was teaser to Hobgoblin in the years 1730 and 

 1731, and on the latter refusing to cover Roxana by the Bald Galloway, she was Jbred 

 to the Arabian, and from that cover produced Lath, the first colt ever credited to him, 

 which brought him into prominent notice. He was represented 15 hands high. The 

 Dai ley Arabian was the property of Mr. Darley, of Buttercramb, near York ; he was 

 the sire of the great Flying Childers, supposed to be the fastest horse in the world, sire 

 of Second, Snip Blacklegs, etc., Bartlet's Childers and Almanzor. Bartlet's Childers 

 never raced, but he was famous as a stallion ; he was sire of Squirt (the sire of Marske 

 and Syphon), and the Little Hartley Mare, the dam of Janus, Blank, Old England, 

 Slouch, etc. The Curwen Bay Barb was a present to Louis XIV. of France from the 

 Emperor of Morocco, and was brought into England by Mr. Curwen. St. Victor Barb 

 was the sire of the Bald Galloway, and he was the sire of Roxana that brought the 

 Godolphin Arabian into notice. The Compton Barb was sire of Coquette and others. 

 Hutton's Bay Barb was sire of Blacklegs. The Byerly Turk was Capt. Byerly's 

 charger in Ireland during King William's wars in 1089. It is from this horse that the 

 Herod blood originated. Byerly Turk got Jigg, sire of Partner, who got Tartar, sire of 

 Herod, who got Highflyer, sire of Sir Peter (Teazle). Sir Peter got Haphazard, Stam- 

 ford, Walton, sire of Phantom and Partisan, Williamson's Ditto and Sir Oliver. 

 Herod got Fortitude, Woodpecker, the sire of Buzzard, who sired Selim, the sire of 

 Sultan, that sired Glencoe, Bay Middleton, etc. Herod got Florizel, sire of Diomed, 

 who got Young Giantess and Sir Archy, sire of Timoleon, who got Boston, sire of 

 Lexington, Lecompt, etc. Godolphin Arabian got Cade, sire of Matchem, who got 

 Conductor, sire of Imperator and Trumpator. Trumpator got Sorcerer, the sire of 

 Comus, and Smolensko. The Darley Arabian got Bartlet's Childers, sire of 

 Squirt, who got Marske, sire of Eclipse, who got King Fergus, Mercury, Dun- 

 gannon, Meteor, Sal tram and Pot-8-os. Mercury got Gohanha, King Fergus got 

 Benningbrough, the sire of Orville, who gotEmilius, the sire of Priam and Plenipoten- 

 tiary, and Master Henry; Muley, the sire of Margrave, Leviathan and others; Hamble- 

 tonian, the sire of Whitelock, who got Blacklock, sire of Brutandorf, Voltaire, etc. ; Sal- 

 tram got Whiskey, the sire of Eleanor and Cressida, the dam of Priam ; Pot-8-os got 

 Waxy, the sire of Web, Whisker, the sire of Economist, who got Echidna and Harkaway, 

 the sire of King Tom. Whalebone, the sire of Camel, who g >t Touchstone, the sire 

 of Orlando and Newminster, the sire of The Hermit; Whalebone also got Sir Hercules, 

 the sire of Irish Birdcatcher, the sire of The Baron, who got Stock well, Rataplan etc., 

 and Faugh-a-Ballagh the sire of Leamington. An examination of the Stud Book and 

 Racing Calender will show that nearly the entire family of great race-horses both in 

 England and America, dates back to the sources mentioned, and that it is extreme 

 folly in our day to expect to improve the present magnificent race-horse by an infusion 

 of the blood of the modern Arabian. We commenced upon the Arab Barb and Turk 

 with a height not exceeding 15 hands, and have, by judicious crossing, generous diet, 

 discreet and careful handling built up the most magnificent specimens of the equine race, 



