THE THOROUGHBRED 



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establishments existed. As a fixed institution, until 

 about the year 1800, racing was almost entirely con- 

 fined to the states of Maryland, Virginia and South 

 Carolina. Nearly all of the horses imported into 

 those states were descendants of the Godolphin Ara- 

 bian, the Byerly Turk, Spanker, Greyhound, the 



FIG. 8. Thoroughbred 



White Turk, Dodsworth, and Layton's Violet Barb 

 mare. Herbert notes the fact that early American 

 thoroughbreds ran through fewer generations to 

 reach their Oriental parentage on both sides than the 

 generality of English horses of the same date, and 

 more fully showed the Arab and Barb or Turk char- 

 teristics in height, figure arid qualities. In 1829 was 

 begun the first publication of a work for recording 



