THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE. 9 



the Royal mares, however, was heavy in foal when she reached 

 England, and soon after joining the King's stud, gave birth to 

 the colt, afterwards known as Dodsworth, who was, of course, 

 a pure Barb. Then, as now, private enterprise was largely 

 expended upon horse-breeding ; and several of the King's 

 subjects, Lord Cullen, and Lord Conway, for example, im- 

 ported several Eastern horses. On the death of Charles II. 

 the Royal mares and other horses appear to have been sold. 

 Dodsworth's dam, bought by Mr. Child from the stud master 

 for 40 guineas, and several of the others apparently passed 

 into the possession of Mr. John D'Arcy who seems to have 

 founded a breeding stud at Sedbury soon after the Restoration. 

 This, at any rate, we may infer from the fact that we find 

 the names of the D'Arcy Grey Royal Mare, and three other 

 D'Arcy Royal Mares. Lord D'Arcy also imported two Eastern 

 sires, known respectively as D'Arcy's White Turk andD'Arcy's 

 Yellow Turk, and these, by being put to the Royal, and other 

 good mares, left their mark upon the earlier stock of this 

 country. 



We gather from the Stud Book that about 176 Eastern sires 

 were imported from the time of King James I. ; and of these 

 24 found their way to England in the reign of Queen Anne. 



We would here again remind the reader that the thorough- 

 bred race horse was not for the first time created by the im- 

 portation of Eastern blood, though it unquestionably improved 

 our native horses ; but, amid the many importations which 

 began in the time of the Stuarts, we lose sight of the old 

 English race horse as he existed before the Restoration. 



It would be mere plagiarism to discuss in detail all the 

 Eastern horses the names of which are to be found ; it will, 

 therefore, suffice for this description of the manufacture of the 

 blood-horse to make short mention of three sires who may be 

 said to have accomplished great things for the breed of race 

 horses, though it is incorrect to say that they, between them, 

 made the thoroughbred. 



The first is the Byerly Turk, so called because he was 



