1 66 A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



sent the horse over to England. He was sire of Almanzar, Cupid, Brisk, W/iist/c- 

 jackct, Dccdalus, JMonica, and others, and he only covered a few mares altogether, not 

 all Mr. Darley's, and not all thoroughbred. Through Eclipse he handed on his blood 

 to Whiskey, Gohanna, Tramp, PotSos, Waxy, Orville, Whalebone, Whisker, Blacklock, 

 Touchstone, Birdcatcher, Harkaway, Nfwminster, Stockwel/, and Weathcrbit, and through 

 these famous animals, the Darley Arabian still strongly influences the modern 

 Turf. 



Continuing this list of Eastern importations in the first half of the eighteenth 

 century we come to the Honeywood White Arabian, first the property of Sir John 

 Williams and sold by him to the gentleman whose name he bears. He was the sire 

 of Squirrel's granddam, 

 and of the two True 

 Blues out of a Byerly 

 Turk mare. Williams' 

 Woodstock Arabian was 

 the sire in 1715 of 

 Lord Godolphin's Fly- 

 in<r ll-'/iioror whose dam 



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was Points, own sister 

 to Cupid and Bald Gal- 

 loway, both out of Grey 

 Why not ty the 6V. Victor 

 Barb. Fly in o Whi, in Mr. John Ward's Arabian. 



By permission of Mr. Someiville TatlersaU. 



her turn, became the 



dam of those famous matrons the little and the large Hartley Marc, who were foaled 

 respectively in 1727 (by Bartlclfs Childers), and in 1729 (by Hartley s Blind Horse). 

 The Bclgrave Turk was sold to Sir Marmaduke Wyvill by the Minister in London of 

 the Prince of Lorraine, to whom he had come as a present after being taken by 

 General Merce from the Bashaw of Belgrade at the siege of that place. Mr. Crofts, 

 who owned Bloody Buttocks, a grey Arabian with a red mark on his hips, also owned a 

 Bay Barb who was got by Chillaby out of Queen Anne's Moonali Barb mare. Sir 

 William Strickland's Turk was the sire of Butt, and of Colonel Howard's chestnut 

 mare. The Ancaster Turk covered very few mares, but he was the sire of Chaunter's 

 Terror, Mr. Thwaite's Dun mare, Squirrel's dam, the dam of Roxana (who was dam 

 of Latk and Cade by the Godolphin Arabian}, Silverlocks dam, and the granddam of 



