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Eastern Horses mid Arab Alares. 



PERSIAN HORSES. 



A Persian Stallion, the sire of the 

 Duke of Rutland's Bonny Black's 

 dam, foaled 1765. 



Thompson's Persian, 1769. 



Lord Burlington's Persian, 1752. 



Commodore Mathews' Persian, 

 1729. 



Mr. Howe's Persian, 1729 



EGYPTIAN. 



Mr. Croft's Egyptian. 



FOREIGN HORSES. 



Sir T. Gascoigne's. 



A Foreign Horse in Diamond's 



pedigree. 

 Sir W. Goring's Foreign Horse. 



ARABIAN MARES, 



Which tuere employed in the forma- 

 tion of the Efiglish stud during the 

 last century. 



I. A Natural Arabian Mare, great- 

 grandamofMr. Bertie's Trifle, by 

 Fox. 

 This mare in another place, p. 183, 

 vol. i., 'General Stud-book' is 

 called a Natural Barb Mare, an 

 instance showing how horses of 

 Eastern blood were not always 

 accurately described, and that 

 there was formerly, as there is 

 now, a propensity to call any 

 horse of Eastern blood an Arab. 

 An inborn acknowledgment of 

 the superiority and antiquity of 

 the Arabian breed : no one pos- 

 sessing a pure Arabian would 

 call him a Turk or Barb, or care 

 to have him so described. 

 2. A Natural Arabian Mare, gran- 

 dam of Lord Portman's Tiney, by 

 Skim. 



3. An Arabian Mare, great-gran- 

 dam of Lord Lonsdale's Monkey, 

 by his Bay Arabian. 



4. An Arabian Mare, great-great- 

 grandam of Sir C. Sedley's 

 Cadena, by Cade. 



5. An Arabian Mare of Lord 

 Lonsdale's, great -great -grandam 

 of Sir J. Pennyman's Bumper, by 

 Partner. 



6. An Arabian Mare, the dam of 

 Sir C. Bunbury's Humdrum, by 

 Matchem. 



7. An Arabian Mare, the dam of 

 Lord Clermont's Hunston. 



There are two other Arabian Mares 

 mentioned between the years 

 1760-80, but I am not sure if 

 these were imported mares, or 

 whether they were foaled in this 

 country, and styled Arabian mares 

 after their sires, as in the cases of 

 the Beaufort, Cullen, the-Cyprus, 

 and the Darley Arabian Mares, 

 which were daughters of those 

 Arabians, and of mares more or 

 less purely bred. The same may 

 be the case with those mares 

 numbered 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. I do 

 not say it is so ; they were in this 

 country at an early date, but their 

 description is certainly rather 

 in opposition to those marked i 

 and 2, which, being called Natu- 

 ral Arabian Mares, would imply 

 they were imported, or, if foaled 

 in this country, that their sires 

 and dams were both Arabian. 



BARB MARES. 



1. A Barb Mare, grandam of 

 Achilles, 1737. 



2. A Natural Barb Mare, dam of 

 Blossom. 



3. The Moonah Barb Mare. 



4. Laytoii Barb Mare. 



5. A Barb Mare (the dam of Care- 

 less). 



6. The Violet Layton Barb Mare. 



