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the I hike (it Newcastle admired and Va.i Dyck drew, tin- Italians of that court loved a 

 particular kind of big-built showy animal which was certainly suitable lor the manege 

 and lor pageantry, and also fell in exactly with King Henry's tastes, but was 

 not the best kind lor crossing with the Knglish breed. Arab blood, even unscientifi- 

 cally employed, had no doubt done much lor our horses for a long time, but what it 

 was to do in the future had not yet been dreamt of. An epoch-making event in the 

 History of the Turf began when on December 2oth, 1616, a payment of /' 154 was 

 made out of the Royal Kxchequer to Master Markhatn, for an Arabian horse for His 

 Majesty's own use, together with \\ to the man who brought and groomed 

 him That small bay stallion, of which the Duke of Newcastle thought so little, was 

 the first ancestor of the modern thoroughbred. Others of his kind came over after- 

 wards, and begat a more illustrious progeny, but the pride of place in the Knglish 

 stud book can never be taken from the Markham Arabian. 



Oueen Klizabcth's Coach. 

 By Hau/na^el. 



