W£ATnERBYS StO'D BoOK. 5I 



Protector, and was sire of Wormwood, Commoner, and the great-grand-dams of Wyndham, Grey 

 Ramsdcn, and Cartouche. 



" King Charles II. 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. 



" UoDSWORTH, though foaled in England, was a natural Barb. His dam, a Barb mare, was 

 imported in the time of Charles II., and was called a royal mare. She was sold by the stud- 

 master, after the king's death, for forty guineas, at twenty years old, when in foal to the Helmsley 

 Turk with Vixen, dam of the Old Child mare. 



" The Straddling or Lister Turk was brought into England by the Duke of Berwick, from 

 the siege of Buda, in the reign of James II. He got Snake, the Duke of Kingston's Brisk and 

 Piping Peg, Coneyskins, the dam of Hip, and the grand-dam of the Bolton Sweepstakes. 



"The Byerley Turk was Captain Byerley's charger in Ireland in King William's wars 

 (1689, &c.). He did not cover many thoroughbred mares, but was the sire of the Duke of 

 Kingston's Sprite, who was thought nearly as good as Leedes ; the Duke of Rutland's Black 

 Hearty and Archer, the Duke of Devonshire's Basto, Lord Bristol's Grasshopper, and Lord 

 Godolphin's Byerley Gelding, all in good forms ; Halloway's Jigg, a middling horse ; and 

 Knightley's mare in a very good form. 



" Greyhound. The cover for 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 Duke 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 Duke of Wharton's Rake, 

 a middling horse ; Lord Halifax's Sampson, Goliath, and Favourite, pretty good twelve-stone 

 plate horses, who ran in the North, where he was a common stallion, and covered many of the 

 best mares. 



"The D'Arcy White Turk was the sire of Old Hautboy, Grey Royal, Cannon, &c. 



"The D'Arcy Yellow Turk was the sire of Spanker, Brimmer, and the great-grand-dam of 

 Cartouche. 



"The Marshall or Sellaby Turk was the property of Mr. Marshall's brother, stud-master 

 to King William, Queen Anne, and King George I. He got the Curwen Old Spot, the dam 

 of Windham, the dam of the Derby Ticklepitcher, and great-granddam of the Bolton Sloven 

 and Fearnought. 



"Curwen's Bay Barb was a present to Louis XIV. from Muley Ismael, King of Morocco, 

 and was brought into England by Mr. Curwen, who being in France when Count Byram and Count 

 Toulouse (two natural sons of Louis XIV.) were the former Master of the Horse and the latter an 

 admiral, he procured of them two Barb horses, both of which proved excellent stallions, and are 

 well known by the names of the Curwen Bay Barb and the Toulouse Barb. Curwen's Bay Barb 

 got Mixbury and Tantivy, both very high-formed galloways (the first of them was only 13 

 hands 2 inches high, and yet there were not more than two horses of his time that could beat 

 him at light weights) ; Brocklesby, Little George, Yellow Jack, Bay Jack, Monkey, Dangerfield, 

 Hip, Peacock and Flatface (the first two in good forms, the rest middling); two Mixburys (full 

 brothers to the first Mixbury middling galloway), Long Meg, Brocklesby, Betty, and Creeping 

 Molly (extraordinarily high-formed mares); White Neck, Mistake, Sparkler, and Lightfoot (very 

 good mares) ; and several middling galloways, who ran for plates in the North. He got two full 



