THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. ^)65 



Son of the Darley Arabian out of Betty Leecles, h^ 

 old Careless ; grandam, own sister to Leedes, by 

 Leedes' Arabian, which was the sire of Leedes ; great 

 grandam by Spanker, out of the old Morocco mare, 

 Spanker's own dam. Old Careless, sire of the dam 

 of Childers, w^as got by Spanker out of a Barb mare. 

 Spanker w^as almost all Barb. Thus we see tlie pedi- 

 gree of Childers runs very much in and in, that is, his 

 progenitors were bred from the nearest affinities. 

 Never w^as there a more complete racing pedigree, all 

 the progenitors, to the last, having proved their 

 blood by successful racing or breeding racers, and all 

 of the best blood, Arabian or Barb. In October, 1722, 

 Childers beat Lord Drogheda's Chaunter, previously 

 the best horse of the day, six miles, ten stone each, 

 for one thousand guineas. He had already, at six 

 years old, ran a trial against Almanzor, and the Du e 

 of Rutland's Brown Betty, nine stone two pounds 

 each, over the round course at Newmarket, thr^e 

 miles, six furlongs, and ninety-three yards, which dis- 

 tance he ran in six minutes and forty seconds ; to 

 perform which he must have moved eighty- two feet 

 and a half in one second of time, or nearly after the 

 rate of one mile in a minute ; the greatest degree of 

 velocity which any horse has ever shown, or probably 

 ever will. He likewise ran over the Beacon course, 

 four miles, one furlong, one hundred and thirty-eight 

 yards, in seven minutes and thirty seconds, covering 

 at each bound a space of twenty-live feet. He 

 leaped ten yards on the level ground, with the rider 

 on his back. 



The Godolphin Arabian was about fifteen hands in 

 height, with good bone and substance ; in colour a 

 brown bay, mottled on the buttocks and crest, but 

 with no white, excepting a small streak upon the 



