Sporting and Rural Records of the Cheveley Estate. 97 



Aiabiaii. 



I 731, the latter stallion refusing to cover Roxana, she was put to Saxtox Hau. 

 the Arabian, the produce of that connection being a bay colt -rheGodolnhin 

 (Lath), foaled in 1732. .\s above mentioned, this foal, his dam, 

 and his sire, with others, were bought by Lord Godolphin in the 

 following year, consequently the circumstances attending the 

 conception of Lath would have occurred before the dam and sire 

 in question belonged to his lordship. In 1 733 Roxana was put to 

 the newly-named Godolphin Arabian, and produced a bay colt 

 (Cade). She died a fortnight after foaling, and the foal was reared 

 on cow's milk. From these and others, afterwards sired by Lord 

 Godolphin's .\rabian, descended manv of the best horses on the 

 Turf — a notable and recent instance being Isinglass. 



The stor}- of the affection that subsisted between the 

 Godolphin Arabian and the black cat. which was, in his latter 

 days, his constant companion, and usually slept upon his back, is 

 perfectly authenticated, and is distinctly associated with the great 

 stallion's box at Gogmagog. When he died, in December. 1753, 

 the cat followed him to the place where he was about to be buried, 

 under a gateway near the stable, sat upon him there until he was 

 interred, then went away, and was not seen again till found dead 

 in the hay-loft. At the time of his death the Godolphin Arabian 

 was supposed to have been in the twenty-ninth vear of his age. 

 If that is correct he would be seven years old when he first 

 covered Roxana. This disproves the assertion of innumerable 



His Farotirite 

 Cat. 



Sweepstakes of 20 guineas each for five-vears-old horses carrying gst. In this, and 

 subsequent races, he is described as a brown horse. On April 15, 173a. he 

 received forfeit in a match for 200 guineas, and on Oct. 3 he ran third m. the King's 

 Plate for six-vears-old horses. .\s Hobgoblin does not appear to hate ran during 

 the following year (17311 he may have gone to the stud and refused to cover 

 Roxana under the circumstances above mentioned. He teas in training again in 

 1732, and was beaten in a match for 500 guineas, bv the Duke of Bolton's 

 Fearnought on March 3 1 : and on April 29 he won a match for 5C» guineas aaainst 

 Mr. Fleetwoods Eaton. On October 7 he won a Tnarr-h for 300 guineas against 

 the Duke of Somerset's Greylegs. On April 6. 1733, ^ received forfeit in a match 

 with Mr. Panton's Commoner, and on the 27th of that month, received forfeit in 

 another match with that horse. He does not appear in the Stud Book as a stallioo 

 before 1736. 



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Hobgoblin. 



