36 The English Horse. 



Tpie Darley Arabian Line, 



The Darley Arabian was a bay horse who possessed, 

 so it has been stated, every point that could be desired 

 in a Turf horse. 



He was a Koheilan-Ras-el-Fedawi. The Kaheilan is 

 one of the principal breeds of pure bred Arabians ; the 

 adjunct Ras-el-Fedawi specifies one of the numerous 

 varieties of this family. Mr. Darley, who was consul 

 at Aleppo, obtained this horse, I believe, during one of 

 the annual visits of the great Anezah of Nejed, which 

 tribe goes annually from thence to within a few miles 

 of Aleppo in the spring, and returns to Nejed in the 

 autumn or winter. He had a white snip down his face ; 

 his two hind feet and off fore foot were white. 



The Stud Book informs us that he covered very 

 few mares except Mr. Darley's, who had very few well- 

 bred ones. 



He was the sire of Childers, commonly called Flying 

 Childers, Almanzor, and his own brother, Cupid, Brisk, 

 Aleppo, and some few others. 



Bartlet's Childers is generally supposed to have been 

 own brother to Flying Childers, and the Darley Arabian 

 line is traced from him through Eclipse, supposed to be 

 great-grandson of Bartlet's Childers, the blood of Flying 

 Childers being more generally represented in the line of 

 the Byerly Turk. It would have been, I think, more 

 satisfactory had Flying Childers handed down the line 

 in direct male descent; but the usually admitted succes- 

 sion is as follows : — Bartlet's Childers, Squirt, Marskc, 



