38 The English Horse. 



dished before coming to the muzzle, and with a fine full 

 eye, with a straight back and high quarters, long shoul- 

 ders, not very deep in chest, but deep in the back ribs, 

 so that the underneath line carried from the elbow 

 along the belly was very nearly straight, a similar for- 

 mation and appearance to those described in Sultan's 

 sketch. There is good reason for believing this repre- 

 sentation to be more correct than that shown by the 

 prints, which represent him with that formation of head 

 which tells of base blood, when it is remembered that 

 Flying Childers was a horse altogether of Eastern 

 blood, and very nearly Arabian. His sons Blaze and 

 Snip infused his blood very largely into the line of the 

 Byerly Turk. Supposing Bartlet's Childers to have been 

 his own brother, we shall find the line for some time 

 breeding down from a more excellent state to one of 

 less purity, unlike the Turk's line upwards, from an 

 inferior to a better. The Turk's line was improved by 

 frequent infusions of Arabian blood. In the Darley 

 Arabian's line the blood was departed from at once 

 with giant strides. 



Squirt, a chestnut horse, foaled in 1732, by Bartlet's 

 Childers, was from a Snake mare without any certain 

 Arabian blood in her veins, and Snake cannot be con- 

 sidered as more than half bred, being by the Lister Turk, 

 his dam by Hautboy, but who was her dam } besides, 

 Hautboy was by a Turk out of a Royal mare, which 

 may have been of any breed. 



Marske, by Squirt, foaled in 1750, was a brown horse. 



