10 THE RACE-HORSE. 



became notorious (by the accident of his being the 

 sire of a capital racer, out of a mare which the stal- 

 lion to which he was teazer refused to cover,) and, 

 strange to say, no very superior race-horse has 

 appeared in England, for many years, that cannot 

 be traced to his blood. The success of this horse 

 was much facilitated by the lucky coincidence of 

 his arrival in England at a critical time, that is to 

 say, when the stock from Barley's horse, and the 

 several Arabs, Barbs, and Turks, together with the 

 Royal Mares imported by Charles the Second, had 

 been " crossed," as the term is, on each other ; and 

 had produced mares worthy to be the channel of 

 imparting his own transcendent qualities to poste- 

 rity. Taking it for granted, then, that the Eng- 

 lish race-horse is descended from Arabian, Turkish, 

 and African (Barb) blood ; and also taking into 

 consideration the various .peculiarities in the form 

 and power of each of those kinds, requiring modifi- 

 cation of shape, qualities, and action suited to the 

 purposes for v/hicli they were intended, it cannot 

 be denied, that a task of no ordinary difficulty was 

 imposed on the English horse-breeders, and that 

 they have executed that task with a masterly hand. 

 If other countries furnished the blood, England has 

 made the race-horse. 



With the exception of one Eastern horse, called 

 the Wellesley Arabian, the grandsire of a winner 

 of the Oaks in 1826, also of Dandizette, who ran 

 second for that stake in 1 823, and was the dam of 

 Exquisite, who ran second for the Derby in 1829, 

 the English Turf has benefited nothing, during the 



