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that Tregonwell Frampton's duties were taken over by his successor, Mr. Thomas 

 Panton, owner of Molly, and father of that " polite Tommy Panton," who was to win 

 the Derby of 1786 with Noble. R. Marshall and T. Smith were his stud grooms. 



But Frampton's long career, connected as it is with the valuable importations of 

 Pullen and of Marshall, covers a period which is especially fruitful in traces of that 

 somewhat misty dynastic history in which the dawn of the modern turf first takes its 

 rise. In the early years of the eighteenth century, the names which every turfite 

 knew were Bustler, Spanker, Old Cartouch, Basto, Bay Bollon, Makelcss, Brocklesby 

 Betty, Old Fox, Flying (or Devonshire) Childers, and his own brother, Bartletfs 

 Childers, the Bald 

 Galloway, Bonny 

 Black, Old Sear, 

 L a mpric, Bu ckh unter, 

 Molly, Squirrel, Miss 

 JVffs/iain, Bald Cliar- 

 lotle (or Lady Legs), 

 and Crab. After the 

 beginning of that cen- 

 tury's third decade we 

 find Hobgoblin, Bay 

 Childers, Fearnought, * WBtwT "-.;:_> -^ - _> . -**-*r 



Starling, Young Car- By pension of H.R.H. Prince Christian. 



toitche, Partner, Miss 



Layton, Latli, Spanking Roger, Second, Volunteer, Torrismond, Moorcock, Babraliani, 



Little Driver, Silver/eg, Othello, and Sampson, who was foaled in 1745. 



Such a list of high-formed animals as this is more than sufficient to prove the 

 good use which had been made of the Eastern blood by English breeders. Some of 

 the most famous of these importations have been already mentioned, and others will 

 be named as I discuss various old pedigrees with greater detail. But three stand out 

 pre-eminent. Of the arrival and the influence of the Bycrly Turk, and the Darley 

 Arabian, I have spoken shortly already; by 1731 the Godolphin Arabian had come as 

 well, and these are the three great sires through whom the many importations of the 

 seventeenth and eighteenth centuries still survive. As we shall see, two, even out of 

 these few, are less important in their effects upon bloodstock to-day than is the third; 

 for if we take the lines of Herod, Matchem, and Eclipse as the chief channels by which 



The " Godolphin Arabian." 

 By Robots. 



