66 THE HORSE. 



ration indicative of fleetness of limb, and 

 of endurance. 



Upon this strain, produced from such 

 animals, the Darley and Godolphin Ara- 

 bians gave those excellent impressions 

 which have ever since been sustained. 



For the English horse the Tudors at- 

 tempted to obtain greater size, to which 

 the Stuarts introduced quality in the 

 What our shapo of the Turk and Barb. For this 



ancestors did 



from the days improvcd Ensflish-bom breed the two 



of the Tudors ^ ^ 



termination Celebrated Arabians above mentioned 

 dynasty. produccd almost perfection, " that is, the 

 Asiatic horses failed to effect any im- 

 provement beyond what existed, or the 

 same class of horse which originally had 

 been landed in this country, was not of the 

 same quality as their predecessors. And 

 this possibly was the fact, as in 1750 



