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tween the various tribes of Arabian 

 horses. Therefore it would be very diffi- 

 cult to prove the truth of Admiral Rous's 

 assertion that " the English race-horse, 

 both on male and female sides, had de- 

 scended from pure-bred Arabians." 



Mr. Blunt, in the September issue of Biunt's his- 

 tory of the 



the "Nineteenth Century," 1880, very ^ 1 e ishblood 

 distinctly gives the history of the English 

 thorough-bred. " It was not till the 

 Stuart Restoration that the foundation 

 of the present thorough-bred was laid by 

 Charles II., who, by his connection with 

 Sangier, his Queen's dowry, obtained 

 certain Barb mares of a quality superior 

 to anything hitherto imported for the 

 Royal stud, and which as " Royal mares " 

 form the foundation of the English Stud 

 Book. That some of these Royal rnares 



