76 The English Horse. 



purposes than that of the sire of racehorses. The dam 

 of the Beningbrough mare, Jenny Mole, was by Car- 

 buncle, a son of Babraham Blank (grandson of the 

 Godolphin Arab or Barb), out of a mare by Prince 

 T'Quassaw (a son of Snip, grandson of the Darley Ara- 

 bian), out of Dairymaid, by the Arab Bloody-Buttocks 

 out of a mare by Regulus (son of the Godolphin Arab 

 or Barb), out of a mare by Partner, grandson of the 

 Byerly Turk. Babraham Blank was by Babraham out 

 of Sister to Blank, by the Godolphin Arab or Barb out 

 of the Little Hartley mare (a daughter of Bartlet's 

 Childers). This is an uncommon and curious pedigree, 

 containing a good amount of the Darley Arabian's blood, 

 some of the Byerly Turk's, but much in-breeding to the 

 Godolphin Arab. 



The Doctor, a black horse, foaled in 1834, son of 

 Doctor Syntax, ran third to Mango for the St. Leger. 

 His dam was by Lottery from Elizabeth, by Walton out 

 of Trulla, by Sorcerer, granddam by Weathercock out 

 of Cade, by Matchem. He was the sire of The Black 

 Doctor, a black horse, foaled in 1848, whose dam, Betsy 

 Bird, was by Voltaire out of Zephyrina, by Middlethorpe 

 out of Pagoda, by Sir Peter. Middlethorpe, a chestnut 

 horse, was by Shuttle (by Young Marske, great-grand- 

 son of Bartlet's Childers out of the Vauxhall Snap 

 mare). He had a great many strains of the Darley 

 Arabian blood, and was also bred back by several strains 

 to the Godolphin Arab or Barb. He won the Man- 

 chester Trade Cup in 1S52, then four years old, canying^ 

 8st. 31b. He was a good-looking horse, with much 



