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walking over the Newmarket Course for the King's Plate in 

 October 1770. During this brief period it is said that he 

 gained 25,000 for his owner. He was then employed with 

 prodigious profit as a stallion. He got 334 winners at our 

 numerous race-courses, who are computed to have gained 

 about 160,000 to their owners, besides cups and plates. He 

 died in 1789 at the age of twenty-five. 



Another horse of foreign lineage, scarcely inferior to the 

 Darley Arabian in the fame and value of his descendant^, 

 and by many supposed to have exercised a yet more impor- 

 tant influence on the horses of the turf, is the Godolphin 

 Barb, who lived a short time later than the Darley Arabian, 

 having been born about the year 1724. This splendid horse 

 was long regarded as an Arabian, although his characters 

 approached to those of the Barb. He was found dragging a 

 water cart in France, and was probably one of those neg- 

 lected presents of horses, frequent at that time, from the 

 Barbary powers to the French court. He was brought to 

 England and finally presented to Lord Godolphin, in whose 

 stud he remained a considerable time before his value was 

 suspected, and then only it was discovered in consequence of 

 the excellence of one of his sons, Lain, out of Roxana, who 

 proved to be the fleetest horse, Childers excepted, that had 

 till then appeared on the English turf. His grandson, 

 Matchem, was in a peculiar degree noted for the excellence 

 of his stock. This latter horse is supposed to have yielded 

 his owner, Mr. Fen wick, upward of 17,000 as a stallion 

 alone. He died in 1781, having had 354 sons and daughters, 

 all winners at our numerous race-courses, and computed to 

 have gained to their owners 151,097. 



It is the general opinion of the best-informed 

 English turfmen that the Oriental stallions 

 which contributed most largely to the forma- 

 tion of the English thoroughbred were Place's 

 White Turk, the Byerly Turk, Lister's, or the 

 Straddling Turk, the Darley Arabian, Curwen's 

 Barb, Lord Carlisle's Turk, the Godolphin Ara- 



