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^23." The highest valuations in the catalogue were 

 put upon the produce of Rupert, an Arab stallion 

 belonging to the Villiers " race," lots 53, 64, 66, and 

 69 in rotation, which are described as follows : " One 

 bright bay horse, with a starr and a snip, 4 white 

 feete, black list downe the back, 4 yeares old, ;^35. 

 One browne bay [horse] without white, 4 yeares old, 

 ^35, One browne bay horse, 4 yeares old, with a 

 starre, ^25. One bright bay horse with a black list, 

 and one white foote, ^25," It is evident some of Sir 

 John Fenwick's famous Arabian "race" were in- 

 troduced into the royal racing stud, as we find lot 25 

 is entered thus : " Sorrell Fennick, one Sorrel mare 

 with a blaze, 9 yeares old, with a mare foale, ^18." 

 So also with the celebrated Arab stud maintained 

 about this time, and subsequently after the Restoration, 

 at Welbeck Abbey by the Duke of Newcastle, as 

 indicated by lots 2, 3, 6, 18, 22, 26, 59, 6t, 96, 98, and 

 99, from which we may infer (taken with other corro- 

 boratory evidence) that the royal mares in King 

 Charles's stud were occasionally served by stallions 

 beloneine to those notable breeders in the seventeenth 

 century. Upon the whole, this inventory, though 

 imperfectly and carelessly drawn up, proves that the 

 principal, and probably the subordinate lots at the 

 royal stud, immediately prior to the year 1643, were 

 derived from and represented in the Arab blood 

 which was deemed indispensable by the best breeders 

 of those days. As to the yearlings, the two-year-old 

 and the three-year-old colts and fillies, from lot 36 

 to lot 49, no reference is made to either sire or dam, 



