12 A MIRROR OF THE TURF, 



horse being quickly sent over to this country, 

 was placed in charge of Mr. Darley's brother at 

 Buttercramb near York, where he soon dis- 

 tinguished himself at the stud ; he got Almanzor, 

 Childers, Cupid, Brisk, Daedalus, Dart, Skipjack, 

 Uranica, Aleppo, as also brother to Almanzor, 

 which, however, from meeting with an accident, 

 never ran on the turf. 



Before the advent of the Darley horse 

 in the reign of Queen Anne, other Arabians 

 had been brought to Enoland. The Leedes 

 Arabian, the sire of Ariadne, was first known as 

 the Northumberland Arabian, his name being 

 changed on becoming the property of Mr. Leedes 

 of North Melford, Yorkshire. Foaled in 1755, 

 that horse was purchased in Zemine from the 

 Immaum of Sinna in Arabia Felix, and was 

 brought to England along with another horse, 

 known in Lord Northumberland's stud as the 

 Golden Arabian, by a Mr. Phillips, well-known 

 in his day for his "good judgment of horses." 

 The Brown Arabian served in the Northumberland 

 stud until the year 1766, when he was used by 

 Mr. Leedes. Although this foreigner was not 

 in great demand, he was the sire of some good 

 winning horses. Other foreign horses which 

 have left their mark on the Eno^lish stud were 

 Mr. Honeywood's White Arabian, and the horse 

 which was sire of Makeless, and also of Bald 

 Frampton, likewise of the far-famed Scottish 

 Galloway, which beat the Duke of Devonshire's 

 Dimple. The Arabian mare (by the Cullen 

 Arabian out of an Arabian mare) was bred by 

 the Duke of Cumberland. One of the finest 

 of the Eastern horses brought to this country 



