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hinder heels. All the old engravings give him the 

 high and sweUing crest which has been so much 

 noticed in Stubs's picture ; there is also the same 

 sinking behind his withers, and assinine elevation of 

 the spine towards the loins. His muzzle was so re- 

 markably fine, that he might well (a favourite idea 

 of the old jockeys,) have drank out of a tumbler. He 

 was truly snake-headed, which is to say, his head was 

 perfectly well set on. His capacious shoulders were 

 in the true declining position, quarters well spread ; 

 and of every part materially contributory to action, 

 nature had allowed him an ample measure ; in his 

 tout ensemble there appears the express image of a wild 

 animal, or horse of the desert, and of one at the first 

 view perfectly adapted from his form to get racers. 

 He was sent to France, from some capital or royal 

 stud in Barbary, probably from Morocco ; and it was 

 suspected he was stolen ; but so little valued, that he 

 was actually used to draw a cart in the streets 

 of Paris. It is not known that he had any pedigree, 

 but a notice was- sent over with him that he was 

 foaled in the year 1724, most probably in Barbary. 



This horse was not impcrted by Mr. Coke, as has 

 been supposed, from Barbary, but from France. Mr. 

 Coke gave him to Mr. Williams, master of St. 

 James's coffee-house, who presented him to the Earl 

 of Godolphin. Being most likely out of condition, 

 and not showing himself to advantage, he was kept 

 on the noble Earl's stud as teaser to Hobgoblin, 

 during the years 1730 and 1731, when that stallion 

 refusing to cover Roxana, she was served by the 

 Arabian, and the produce Vv^as a colt foal, afterwards 

 named Lath, which proved not only a most elegant 

 and beautiful horse, but the best racer which had 

 appeared upon the turf since Flying Chiiders. The 



