382 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. 



wards in many cases became known by the name of their owners 

 or their owners' stud. Thus we hear of the D'Arcy Royal mare, 

 the Sedbury Royal mare, the Why Not Royal mare in the 

 pedigree of Eclipse 1 , in which figure altogether six Royal mares. 

 It is unfortunate that we have no record of the colours of these 

 Royal mares or their female progeny, but from what we have 

 learned of the practice of the Arabs and other peoples (p. 188), 

 we may take it as certain that the mares sold in the Levant 

 to Sir John Fen wick were not likely to be superior in blood to 

 the imported stallions, and were probably inferior. It will 

 be remembered that the horses of the Levant, Irak and other 

 parts of Western Asia are generally inferior to the pure-bred 

 horses of the Anazah tribes, and that they are commonlv grey, 

 white, or black, and we arrived at the conclusion that such 

 horses had in their veins more or less Turcoman blood ; we 

 also saw that yellow was a usual colour amongst the common 

 Turcoman horses. As might naturally have been expected, the 

 stallions imported from the Levant were generally of a light 

 colour. This fact is clearly established by the pedigree of 

 Eclipse from whom most of our modern race-horses are de- 

 scended. The pedigree includes the Byerley Turk (1689), the 

 Lister Turk imported by the Duke of Berwick also in the reign 

 of James II, and sold by the Duke to Mr Lister of Lincolnshire, 

 Lord D'Arcy's White Turk, and Lord D'Arcy's Yellow Turk, 

 imported in the last decade of the seventeenth century, Bay 

 Malton (1705), Grey Wilkes, Coneyskins (1712) a grey horse, 

 son of the Lister Turk, Grey Hautboy, Button's Bay Barb 

 (imported 1720), Hutton's Grey Barb, the Godolphin Barb 

 (a brown bay with some white on his off hind heel), and 

 Bald Galloway. 



It has long since been generally recognised that Eclipse 

 owed his excellence to his great-great-grandsire the Darley 

 Arabian, probably the only pure-bred Anazah horse in our 

 stud-book. But it is worthy of notice that only one strain of 

 this famous Eastern horse is to be found in the pedigree, while 

 there are no fewer than nine strains of Hautboy, who represents 



1 Charles Eichardson, The English Turf (1901), pp. 286-7. The author has 

 compiled a most useful pedigree of Eclipse. 



