1 06 The Enorlish Horse. 



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completely bred, nor entirely bred from the best blood, 

 nor completely bred from a pure and original race. 



Nearly a century after the birth of Flying Childers, 

 Fair Ellen is born to an Eastern horse styled the Wel- 

 lesley Grey Arabian. She was the dam of Lilias, winner 

 of the Oaks, 1826, and of The Exquisite, who ran second 

 for the Derby, 1829 ; and of Euryone, granddam of Safe- 

 guard, a horse of very considerable merit. Unfortunately 

 his blindness (derived doubtless from his sire Defence) 

 always prevented his employment with valuable mares, 

 coupled also with the prejudice against modern Arabian 

 blood ; but his soundness in every other respect, the 

 extraordinary goodness of his feet and legs, and his 

 wonderful constitution, and his success as a sire, consi- 

 dering the inferior mares put to him, have been noticed 

 and recorded by ' Stonehenge.' Slight as was the infusion 

 of Eastern blood, it was not without beneficial results. 

 Perhaps, with the exception of the Darley Arabian, no 

 better Arabs have appeared in this country than the 

 black and bay Arabians presented by Imaun Seyeed, 

 of Muscat, to his Majesty William IV., but I believe 

 they were never used as sires with thorough-bred mares, 

 nor with an Arabian mare also sent with them ; and so 

 the opportunity of trying Arabian blood was again lost 

 or thrown away. These horses, doubtless, came from 

 Nejed. The Arabian horse is not indigenous to Oman. 



Assuming that purity of blood is necessary for the 

 attainment of the full amount of excellence in the horse, 

 it is obvious, for the purpose of founding a standard breed 

 in this or any other country, in which the horse did not 



