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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



Royal stables. As far as I am aware, it is reproduced here for the first time. On the 

 other hand, the Eastern blood so happily increased by the Markham Arabian was still 

 further strengthened by the Arabs from the Digby, Villiers, Fenwick, and New- 

 castle studs, and by the many importations made about the time of the negotiations 

 for the abortive Spanish marriage through the influence of the court of Madrid, and 

 the energy of Buckingham and others. The inventory, signed in 1629, of the contents 

 of the Royal stud at Tutbury which was seized by Parliament in 1643, contains many 

 indirect proofs of this, though the nomenclature of the catalogue is sometimes too 

 indefinite to decide whether a horse 



is described in his own name or in 



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that of his sire. It is, however, 



possible to trace the Markham 



Arabian influence ; for he was the 



sire of Friscll who got " lot 68. One 



white colt 3 years old \2," also 



" lot 72. One browne bay colt, one 



white foote behind, 3 yearcs old 



.15," also "lot 12. One bright 



bay with a starre, 12 years old, with 



a mare foale .18," and "lot i<. 



One bright bay Mare with astreake, 



12 years old, with a horse foale 



,22." " Frisell Longlegs," sire of 



lot 23, a bright bay mare with a 



star, also appears to be of the same 



family. Of the other horses which 



may be presumed to have had 



Eastern blood we find " lot 5. One black Mare, by Black Morocco, with a horse 



foale, .22." " lot 9. One brown bay Mare with starre, by Morocco, with a horse 



foale, .25." "lot 24. One bay Mare, by young Morocco with a horse foale 16." 



" lot 35. One black Mare, 10 year old, by Black Morocco, ,10." " lot 52. One browne 



bay horse with a little starre, by Morocco, ,30." A famous Arab from the Villiers 



stud was Rupert, whose produce were highly valued, as appears from the following 



entries :- " lot 53. A bright bay horse with a Starr and a snip, 4 white feete, a black 



Ijste downe the back, .35." " 10164. A browne bay without white .35 ios." " lot 66. 







English Iliirs,- of the 7'iine of Charles 1. 

 /'ram the on 'final Sketch by I 'an Dyck. 



