ARABIAN, TURK, AND BARB. 



Darley Arabian mare, were " altogether of Eastern extraction without any admixture 

 of common blood." The second is that these horses proved themselves better than 

 any others "of mixed origin." Materials are lacking to convince me of the truth 

 of either of these statements. And when, on the contrary, I find by incontrovertible 

 evidence that the lines of the only three great Eastern sires who have lasted in tail 

 male to our own time have been so perpetuated owing to Herod, Matehem, and Eclipse, 

 I am further strengthened in my doubt by the coincidence based on equally strong 

 historical testimony that these three sires were great racers too, and that their 



" Eclipse." 



By George Stub/is. 



ancestry can by no means be proved to have been entirely of the imported Eastern 

 strain. 



I need only quote one instance out of the three here in support of my general 

 statement, but that instance may as well be Eclipse, to whom it is admitted that the 

 English Turf owes more than in the case of any other sire born before the nineteenth 

 century. The Darley Arabian is usually given the whole credit for Eclipse, as being 

 his great-great-grandsire in the male line. But Squirt goes back (through his dam) 

 to the Lister Turk, who also gave much (through Comytkiiis and Blacklegs daughter) 



