22 Making the American Thoroughbred 



SECOND, dam by Basto. 



BLAZE, dam by Grey Grantham by the Brownlow Turk. 



SNIP, dam by Basto. Snip got Snap, whose dam was by Fox of 



Barb as well as Arabian descent. 

 SPANKING ROGER, grandam by Spanker. 

 ROUNDHEAD, dam Roxana by the Bald Galloway, a son of the St. 



Victor Barb. 



GODOLPHIN ARABIAN AND FAMILY 



The Godolphin Arabian was a brown bay, 15 hands 

 high, with no white except on one heel. He was not a 

 beauty. He was imported into England by a man named 

 Coke and it was strongly suspected that he had been 

 stolen, as no information would be given as to his pedigree 

 or the country from which he had come only the one 

 fact that he had been foaled in 1724. Coke gave the 

 horse to Williams, proprietor of the St. James Coffee 

 House, and Williams gave him to the Earl of Godolphin 

 by whom he was kept as a teazer to Hobgoblin in 1730 

 and 1731. Hobgoblin, on one occasion, refusing to cover 

 Roxana, the Arabian was called into service, the produce 

 being Lath, a "very elegant and beautiful horse," the 

 "best racer since Flying Childers"; but an indifferent 

 stallion. Until his death in 1753 the Godolphin served 

 in the EarPs stud and got a yearly succession of prodigies, 

 among them being, besides Lath: 



BLANK, dam by Bartlett's Childers. 



CADE and DISMAL, both out of Roxana. Cade was an indifferent 



racer but a fine stallion. 



CRIPPLE, gray, dam by Cade; g. dam by Childers. 

 DORMOUSE, dam by (Croft's) Partner. 

 JANUS, dam, the dam of Blank. 

 MATCHLESS, dam by Soreheels, a son of Basto. Matchless was 



imported into South Carolina. 

 REGULUS, dam Grey Robinson by the Bald Galloway. Regulus 



won seven King's plates when six years old and was never beat. 



