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 



whatonr shape of the Turk and Barb. For this 



ancestors did 



* e days improved English-born breed the two 



of the Tudors 



termination celebrated Arabians above mentioned 

 dynasty. produced 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 



