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tin \Vhitc Legged Loicther Barb, and to Pulleinc's Arabian, and from whom descended 

 Partner, Crab, Snip, Mercury, Miiley Moloc/t, Nutvit/t, WarlocA, Bendigo, Tcrtius and 

 others. 



All this was the result of the spread of racing, and of the continued importation 

 of Eastern blood John Evelyn gives a pretty description of the arrival of some of 

 those horses that were doing so much towards the formation of the English thorough- 

 bred just now. In December 1684 he saw three "Turkish or Asian" horses, taken 

 from a bashaw at the siege of Vienna, displayed in St. James's Park before the King, 

 the Duke of York, Prince of Denmark, Monsieur Eaubert (Provost Master of the 

 Academy), and other connoisseurs. " I never beheld," writes Evelyn, " so delicate a 



The Duke of Devonshire's "Flying C/iilders," 

 by the " Darley A radian," out of " Betty Levies," foaled 1715. 

 From an engraving in the, poutstion of Mr. TaltersaU. 



creature as one of them was, of somewhat a bright bay, two white feet, a blaze ; such 

 a head, eyes, eares, neck, breast, belly, haunches, legs, pasterns, and teeth, in all 

 regards beautiful and proportioned to admiration; spirited, proud, nimble . . . . 

 They trotted as if they did not feel the ground. Five hundred guineas were 

 demanded for the first ; three hundred for the second, and two hundred for the third, 

 which was browne." 



It was another siege that was the occasion of the Duke of Berwick's bringing 

 home the Strutting or Lister Turk from Buda, an episode which redeems the reign 

 of James II. from obscurity, for he was the sire of Brocklesby's dam, and Solon and 



