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Second improved by an importation of Barbs and 

 Turks, whose blood was engrafted on the original 

 stock, already very considerably ameliorated by the 

 services of a stallion called Place's White Turk, 

 imported by Oliver CromwelPs Master of the Horse, 

 who bore that name ; and afterwards by those of 

 the Helmsley Turk, followed by Fairfax's Morocco 

 Barb. The change was at this time so visible, that 

 the Lord Harleigh of that day expressed his fears 

 lest it mioht be carried to such an extreme as to 

 extirpate the strong and useful horse, which, per- 

 haps, the majority of his countrymen were well 

 satisfied with before. In the latter end of Queen 

 Anne's reign, however, the first great trump turned 

 up, to secure future success. This was a stallion, 

 called Barley's Arabian, purchased in the Levant, 

 by a Yorkshire merchant of that name, although 

 without any real attestation of his pedigree, or 

 country. The prejudice against Arabians, and other 

 eastern horses, the efiect of the Duke of Newcastle's 

 anathema against them, having now, for the most 

 part, subsided, a good deal of their blood had been 

 infused into the mares of that day, when another 

 stallion, whose services were still more signal, ac- 

 cidentally made his appearance. We allude to the 

 Godolphin Arabian, as he was called, purchased out 

 of a cart in Paris, and consequently of uncertain 

 caste, but evidently the horse of the Desert ; who, 

 as will be hereafter shown, may be said to have won 

 the game. Although at first thought so meanly of, 

 as only to be used as a teazer, yet, fortunately for 

 the Turf, he lived twenty years after his services 



