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The Eno-lish Horse. 



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The latter was a present to Louis XIV. from Muly 

 Ishmael, King of Morocco. Partner was the sire of 

 Tartar, whose dam, MeHora, was by Fox (Fox's sire, 

 Clumsy, was only half-bred, but Fox's dam was a finely- 

 bred mare, entirely of Eastern blood, and very similarly 

 bred to the dam of the two Childers). Tartar was foaled 

 1743, and was the sire of King Herod, commonly called 

 Herod, whose dam, Cypron, notwithstanding certain 

 flaws in her pedigree, was a highly-bred mare, having 

 two direct strains of the Darley Arabian in her veins 

 (her sire, Blaze, was a grandson of the Darley Arabian). 

 Herod had two sons — Woodpecker, foaled in 1773, and 

 Highflyer in 1774 — who handed down his blood through 

 two rival families. Woodpecker's dam, Miss Ramsden, 

 was by Cade, a son of the Godolphin Arabian. The dam 

 of Highflyer was Rachel, by Blank, also a son of the 

 Godolphin Arab, from a Bartlet Childers mare. 



Although Woodpecker and Highflyer were similarly 

 bred, the former is a particularly well-bred horse, and 

 worthy of special notice. He traces back to the Darley 

 Arabian through a mare who played a very conspicuous 

 part in the English stud— Lord Lonsdale's Darley 

 Arabian mare. Miss Ramsden's dam was by the Lons- 

 dale bay Arabian, her granddam by Bay Bolton, her 

 great granddam the Darley Arabian mare, entirely of 

 Eastern blood. Pursuing the system of going by 

 seniority, the line from Herod through Woodpecker, the 

 elder son, will be first reviewed. 



In 1787 Buzzard was accredited to him ; a chestnut 

 like his sire ; his dam. Misfortune, was by Dux, by Mat- 



