1 6 A MIRROR OF THE TURF. 



"died at Gog Magog in Cambridgeshire in 1753, 

 being supposed to be then in the twenty-ninth 

 year of his age, and is buried in a covered passage 

 leading to the stable with a flat stone over him, 

 without any inscription." 



The roll of distinguished foreigners is not com- 

 pleted by the Godolphin Arabian. Louis XIV. 

 received another present from Muley Ishmael, 

 King of Morocco ; that was a horse known 

 afterwards as the Curwen bay barb, from the 

 name of the gentleman who brought him to 

 England. He was not much used, except in the 

 case of Mr. Curwen's own mares. Among the 

 horses of the desert, which had been brought to 

 England, there was also the Sedley Grey Arabian, 

 he was the sire of Coquette and also of Bistern, 

 who was the property of Lord Bolingbroke ; there 

 was likewise the Toulouse barb, sire of the famous 

 Ryegateman, dam of Cinnamon. The Marshall 

 of Selaby Turk, which played an important part 

 among the race-horses of the period, ultimately 

 became the property of Mr. Marshall, the stud- 

 groom of King William, Queen Anne, and 

 George III. The Byerly Turk cannot be passed 

 without some notice : he was ridden by his owner 

 as a charger in Ireland, during King William's 

 wars, and became the sire of Sprite, a really good 

 horse, the property of the Duke of Kingston. 

 The names of Ancaster Turk, the Belgrade Turk, 

 the White Turk, can only be mentioned. ■^^" 



Much scorn has been evinced at the poor 



"* The foregoing notes, it is proper to state, have been 

 "collected" and adapted from a variety of books and perio- 

 dicals too numerous to mention, and must be taken "errors 

 excepted." 



