262 MODERN FARRIER. 



was truly snake-headed, which is to say, his head 

 was perfectly well set on. His capacious shoulders 

 were in the true declining position, quarters well 

 spread ; and of every part materially contributory to 

 action, nature had allowed him an ample measure ; 

 in his tout ensemhle there appears the express image 

 of a wild animal, or horse of the desert, and of one 

 at the first view, perfectly adapted from his form to 

 get racers. He was sent to France, from some capi- 

 tal or royal stud in Earbary, probably from Mo- 

 rocco ; and it was suspected he was stolen ; but so 

 little valued that he was actually used to draw a 

 cart in the streets of Paris. It is not known that 

 he had any pedigree, but a notice was sent over 

 with him, that he was foaled in the year 1724, most 

 probabl)^ in Barbary. 



This horse was not imported by IMr. Coke, as has 

 been supposed, from Barbary, but from France. 

 Mr. Coke gave him to Mr. Williams, master of St. 

 James's coffee-house, who presented him to the earl 

 of Godolphin. Being most likely out of condition, 

 and not shewing himself to advantage, he was kept 

 on the noble lord's stud, as Teaser, to Hobgoblin, 

 during the years 1730 and 1731, when that stallion 

 refusing to cover Roxana, she was served by the 

 Arabian, and the produce was a colt foal, afterwards 

 named Lath, which proved not only a most elegant 

 and beautiful horse, but the best racer which had 

 appeared upon the turf since Flying Childers. The 

 Arabian covered during the remainder of his life, in 

 the same stud, producing yearly a succession of pro- 

 digies of the species. He died in 1753, m his 

 twenty-ninth year, and his remains were deposited 

 in a covered passage leading to the stable, a flat, 

 thankless stone, bare of any inscription, being placed 

 over him. 



The following famous racers, some of which were 

 of great size and power, besides many others of infe- 

 rior note, with a great number of capital racing and 



