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sisters to Mixbury, one of which bred Partner, Little Scar, Sore Heels, and the dam of Crab ; the 

 other was the dam of Quiet, Silver Eye, and Hazard. He did not cover many mares except Mr. 

 Curwen's and Mr. Pelham's. 



"The Toulouse Barb afterwards became the property of Sir J. Parsons, and was the sire of 

 Bagpiper, Blacklegs, Mr. Panton's Molly, and the dam of Cinnamon. 



" Darley's Arabian was brought over by a brother of Mr. Darley, of Yorkshire, who, being 

 an agent in merchandise abroad, became member of a hunting club, by which means he acquired 

 interest to procure this horse. He was sire of Childers, and also got Almanzor, a very good 

 horse; a white-legged horse of the Duke of Somerset's, full brother to Almanzor, and thought to 

 be as good, but, meeting with an accident, he never ran in public ; Cupid and Brisk, good horses ; 

 Daedalus, a very fleet horse; Dart, Skipjack, Manica, and Aleppo, good plate horses, though out 

 of bad mares ; Lord Lonsdale's mare, in very good form ; and Lord Tracey's mare, a good one 

 for plates. He covered very few mares except Mr. Darley's, who had a few well-bred besides 

 Alnianzor's dam. 



" Sir J. William's Turk (more frequently called the Honcywood Arabian) got Mr- 

 Honeywood's two True Blues. The elder of them was the best plate horse in England for four 

 or five years, the younger was in very high form, and got the Romford gelding and Lord 

 Onslow's grey horse, middling horses, out of road mares. It is not known that this Turk covered 

 any mare except the dam of the two True Blues. 



"The Belgrade Turk was taken at the siege of Belgrade by General Merci, and sent by him 

 to the Prince de Craon, from whom he was a present to the Prince of Lorraine. He was afterwards 

 purchased by Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, and died in his possession about 1 740. 



" Of Bloody Buttocks nothing further can be traced from the papers of the late Mr. Crofts 

 than that he was a grey Arabian, with a red mark on his hip, whence he derived his name. 



" Croft's Bay Barb was got by Chillaby, out of the Moonah Barb mare. 



"The GoDOLPHiN Arabian was a brown bay, about 15 hands high, with some white on the 

 off heel behind. There is a picture of him and his favourite cat in the library at Gog Magog in 

 Cambridgeshire, at which place he died, in the possession of Lord Godolphin, in 1753, being then 

 supposed to be in his twenty-ninth year. 



"Whether he was an Arabian or a Barb is a point disputed (his portrait would lead to the latter 

 supposition), but his excellence as a stallion is generally admitted. In 173 1, then the property 

 of Mr. Coke, he was teaser to Hobgoblin, who refusing to cover Roxana, she was put to the 

 Arabian, and from that cover produced Lath, the first of his get. It is remarkable that there is not 

 a superior horse now on the turf without a cross of the Godolphin Arabian, neither has there been 

 for many years past. There is an original portrait of this horse in Lord Cholmondeley's collection, 

 at Houghton ; on comparing which with Mr. Stubbs' print of him, it will be seen that the 

 disproportionately small limbs as represented in the latter do not accord with the painting." 



From some one or more of these sires all the best race-horses of past and present times have 

 descended ; so that down to the present day the Derby and St. Leger winners may be invariably 

 traced to one of the Oriental sires of the seventeenth century recorded by Mr. Wcatherby. 



The prize of races in the time of James I. was a bell, which in the time of Charles II. was 

 exchanged for a bowl, the original King's Plate. In the time of George II. the silver bowl was 

 replaced by a purse of one hundred guineas, which at this day is called the Queen's Plate, and 

 bestowed on certain favoured localities in England, Scotland, and Ireland, to the extent of about 

 Ihrce th'^usand six hundred guineas — ten of tlic English plates being paid for out of Her Majesty's- 



