104 THE IIOESE. 



" Cecil " speaks, in conclusion, thus, and with no passage can I 



It is not, I believe, known what became of these horses, or what stock they 

 produced. 



The Byerly Turk, ) 



Lister's or' the StraddHng Turk, \ Te"^?- ^'^^'^^ H- 



Both these horses produced good stock. The latter "Brisk," "Snake," and 

 other celebrated stallions. 



The Darley Arabian, j 



Curwen's Barb, V Temp. Queen Anne. 



Lord Carlisle's Turk, ) 



Tlie former, sire of Flying Childers, and the most famous progenitor, on the 

 whole, ever imported — the latter sire of the Bald Galloway, and other famoua 

 horses. 



The Godolphin Arabian, Temp. George II. 



sire of Blank, Regulus, &c., &c., and the last Oriental horse, from which the British 

 turf has derived permanent or positive advantage. The Winter Arabian did Httle 

 or nothing for the improvement of our blood, and the Wellesley Arabian — which ia 

 said, however, to have been neither perfect Arabian nor perfect Barb — got but one 

 offspring, fair Ellen, of even ordinary pretensions on the turf Sampson and Bay 

 Malton, though the best horses of their day, had both a strain of base blood. 



I have yet to learn that any of the Eastern horses sent to this country — three to 

 Gen. Jackson, in 1833 or 1834, by the Dey of Algiers, several by the Sultan of Mus- 

 cat in 1839, one imported, I believe from Tripoli, by the late Commodore Elliott, 

 and others — have done any thing to maintain their repute as stock-getters. 



I myself owned a large chestnut stalHon, above 16 hands in height, by one of the 

 former, Zilcaadi, out of a Sweetbriar mare, which had a fair turn of speed, though 

 not such as to justify training him. He had power, and was a fine fencer, so that I 

 had designed training him for the Montreal hurdle races in 1838, when he was in- 

 curably lamed by the carelessness of a groom. He was sold and sent to the Havana, 

 as a stallion, but what became of him, or what he did, I know not. This is the only 

 Eastern bred horse I have ever known in the United States. 



The following list shows the number of all the foreign and all the most celebrated 

 native stallions, descended, more or less remotely, from Arabian or African strains, 

 which were covering in England in 1730, from which date the use of Oriental stock 

 began to decline, as it has continued to do gradually until the present day, when it 

 seems to be the fact that the English thorough blood is no longer susceptible of im- 

 provement by a farther infusion of Oriental blood. 



FOEEIGN STALLIONS, IN 17.30. 



The Alcock Arabian, The Godolphin Arabian, 



The Bloody Buttocks Arabian, Hall's Arabian, 



The Bloody Shouldered Arabian, Johnson's Turk, 



The Belgrade Turk, Litton's Arabian, 



The Bethel Arabian, Matthew's Persian, 



Lord Burlington's Barb, Nottingham's Arabian, 



Croft's Egyptian horse, Newton's Arabian, 



The Cypress Arabian, Pigott's Turk, 



