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I have but one more name and the list of these famous importations will be as 

 complete as I have space to make it for the present. 



The Godolphin Arabian was probably foaled in 1724, and more fiction is known 

 about him, through Eugene Sue's spirited romance, than about most horses who 

 have never been for sale. It may be taken as fairly proved that he was one of the 

 many authenticated presents made to the King of France by the Kmperor of 

 Morocco, of which the Curwen Jlay Barb is a well-known instance. How he passed 

 into private property is not so clear, but it is quite possible that he was neglected in 

 the royal stables by grooms who had no idea of his true value, and eventually sold by 



" Dormouse.'' 

 By T. Spenctr. 



one of them to a well-known English sportsman travelling in Paris. However that 

 may be, he was certainly brought across the Channel by Mr. Coke, who gave him 

 to the Earl of Godolphin, after whom he was called as soon as his usefulness had 

 been proved in the Gog Magog Stud in Cambridgeshire. He was probably about 

 six or seven years old when Hobgoblin gave him the opportunity of his life. 

 Hobgoblin, who had the famous blood of Wharton's Careless in him, was by Aleppo, 

 son of the Darhy Arabian, and was sold to Mr. Coke by Mr. Goodall in 1724. He 

 was proposed in 1731 as a mate for Lord Godolphin's Roxana, a daughter of the 



