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the Walmsley Turk, Dodsworth (a Barb foaled in England, his dam a royal imported mare) 

 the Taffolet Barb, the White-legged Lowther Barb, and the Straddling or Lister Turk, brought 

 by the Duke of Berwick from the siege of Buda, in the reign of James II., at a time when 

 the Sultan was a great European as well as Oriental power, and had, by conquest and by 

 tribute, the finest Oriental horses in his armies. During William III.'s reign there were 

 imported the Byerley Turk, sire of Sprite, Black Hearty, Basto, and Jigg; Greyhound, pur- 

 chased a foal in Barbary by the King's stud-master Mr. Marshall, with his sire a white Barb, 

 Chillaby his dam, Slugey, and the Moonah Barb mare ; the D'Arcy White and Yellow 

 Turks ; and the Marshall or Sellaby Turk. 



" In the reign of Queen Anne sportsmen bred from the Curwen Barb, the Toulouse Barb, 

 a son of Chillaby, the famous Darley Arabian, Williams's Turk, also called the Honeywood 

 White Arabian, the St. Vuter's Barb, Cole's Barb, and many others. 



"About 1730, temp. George II., the following foreign covering stallions were kept in this 

 country : — The Alcock Arabian, the Bloody-shouldered Arabian, the Belgrade Turk (taken at 

 the siege of that place), Bethell's Arabian, Burlington's Barb, Croft's Egyptian horse, the Black 

 Barb, Cyprus Arabian, Devonshire Arabian, Johnson's Turk, Godolphin Arabian, Litton's Chestnut 

 Arabian, Matthew's Persian, Pigott's Turk, Lonsdale's Bay Arabian, and half a dozen others." 



At the same time the following English thoroughbred horses (recorded in the Appendix 

 to Weatherby's first volume of the " Stud Book ") were covering : — Bay Bolton, the Bald Galloway 

 (a pony), Aleppo, Almanzor, Basto, Bloody Buttocks, Bartlett's Childers, Bollan's Starling Arab, 

 Cartouche, Flying Childers, Fox, Greyhound, Hartley's Blind Horse, Hampton Court Childers, 

 Hutton's Grey Childers, Hobgoblin, Jigg, Manica, Lamprey, Partner, Sore Heels, Small's Childers, 

 Tifler, Woodcock, Young Belgrade, and Young True Blue — names which are not barren, 

 because every good race-horse for the last twenty or fifty years may be traced back to some 

 of them, and through them to Oriental sires. Lawrence records the names of some dozen other 

 Orientals imported between 1730 and his time, but as none have become famous it is not worth 

 while to repeat them. 



In an advertisement of the Damascus Arabian, it states that he was " of the purest Arabian 

 breed, without any admixture of Turcoman or Barb," " which shows," says Lawrence, " the 

 fashionable opinion in 1773." 



After about 1750 no Oriental blood, Arab, Barb, or Turk, seems to have been used with 

 success, although stakes for imported Arabians were run at Newmarket. All the most famous 

 race-horses trace their pedigrees between 1730 and 1750, through English sires, to the Darley or 

 Godolphin Arabians. " Our best horses for nearly a century past have been either deeply imbued 

 with their blood or entirely derived from it." 



According to Lawrence, " the Godolphin Arabian was in colour a brown bay, somewhat 

 mottled on the buttocks and crest, but with no white excepting the off heel behind, about 15 

 hands high, with good bone and substance. His portrait, by Seymour, was in the library at 

 Gog Magog, the seat of Lord Godolphin. It is presumed that the famous portrait by Stubbs 

 (engraved in Lawrence's book), which sold at his sale for 246 guineas, was a copy of Seymour's. 

 Artists say that the crest of the horse is quite out of nature. However, from all accounts and 

 the various representations I have seen of this horse, his crest was exceedingly large and elevated, 

 his neck elegantly curved, and his muzzle very fine. He had considerable length, his capacious 

 shoulders and head the true sloping position, and every part materially contributed to action. 

 According to tradition he was picked up in Paris, where he was drawing a cart." But William 

 Osmer, who published "A Dissertation on Horses," in 1756, three years after the death of the 



