ARABIAN, TURK, AXD BARB. 



on board the ' Earl Elgin,' Indiaman." Mr. Bell offered his Arabian at ten guineas 

 a mare, announcing that he had been purchased at the distance of thirty clays' 

 journey from St. John D'Acre, the nearest seaport to the Desert of Arabia, by an 

 Armenian named Philip John, who shipped him to England from Aleppo. Importers 

 had evidently a set of breeders to deal with who knew the value of good stock and 

 insisted upon some guarantee that they got it. The D'Arcy family and their 

 stud at Sedbury gave especially important help to the English thoroughbred at 

 this time, and the constant recurrence of their name in the early pages of the 

 Stud Book is an eloquent tribute to the value of their efforts. The Marshall or 

 Sclaby Turk was the property of Mr. Marshall's brother, stud-groom to King 

 William, Queen Anne, and George I. He was sire of Mr. Curwen's Old S/>ot 

 (who got the dam of Mixbnry and the granddam of Mr. Croft's Partner}, of 

 Wyndhams dam, and of the dam of Lord Derby's Ticklepitcher, with other high- 

 formed horses. Mr. Curwen of Workington in Cumberland brought a bay barb 

 into England which had been given to Louis XIV. by Muley Ishmael, King 

 of Morocco. He got Mixbury who could beat every horse on the turf except 

 two at light weights, though he was only thirteen hands and a-half in height. 

 He also got Tantivy, Brocklesby, Little George, Yellow Jack, Bay Jack, Monkey, Long 

 Meg, Creeping Molly, 

 Whilencek and Light- 

 foot. The Tlwulouse 

 Barb, who was im- 

 ported at the same 

 time, was bought by 

 Sir John Parsons, of 

 Ryegate, Surrey, and 

 was afterwards sold to 

 Lord Burlington. He 

 was sire of Sir William 

 Blackett's Bagpiper 

 and Blacklegs, of Mr. 

 Panton's Molly, and 

 others. 



The famous Darley Arabian (sire of Flying Childers) was the property of 

 Mr. Darley of Buttercramb, near York, whose brother was a merchant abroad and 

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The Karl of far/mare's '' ^foo>cock?' 

 By petmiaion of U.K. II. Pn*cc Christian. 



