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year, and was decently buried, and cakes and ale were given at the 

 funeral of his flesh. The followin^g famous horses, some of which 

 were of great size and powers, besides many others with a great 

 number of capital racing and brood mares, descended from the Go- 

 dolpliin Arabian, viz : Lath, Cade, Regulus, Babram, Blank, Dis- 

 mal, Bajazet, Tamerlane, Tarquin, Phoenix, Slug, Blossom, Dor- 

 mouse, Skewball, Sultan, Old England, Noble, the Gower Stal- 

 lion, Godolphin Colt, Cripple, Entrance. 



Mr. Darley, of a sporting family in Yorkshire, being a mercan- 

 tile agent in the Levant, and belonging to a hunting club at Alep- 

 po, made interest to purchase a horse, one of the most valuable 

 ever hnported in England, and which fully established the worth 

 of the Arabian stock. He was a bay horse, his near foot before, 

 with his two hind feet white, with a blaze in his face, and about 

 fifteen hands high; he was imported into England in the year 

 1703, then four years of age. 



The Darley Arabian, (for such he was called,) got Flying Chil- 

 ders, Bartlett's Childers, Almanzor, Whitclegs, Cupid, Brisk, Dee. 

 dalus, Skipjack, Manika, Aleppo, Bully Rock, Whistlejacket, &c. 

 This horse had not that variety of mares which annually pour- 

 ed in upon the Godolphin Arabian, indeed he covered very few 

 except those of Mr. Darley his proprietor — ^but from these sprung 

 the largest and speediest race horses which were ever known. — 

 Flying Childers and Eclipse, the swiftest beyond a doi^bt of all 

 quadrupeds, were the son and great grand son of this Arabian, 

 from which, also, through Childers and Blaze, descended Samp- 

 son, the strongest horse that ever raced before or since his time ; 

 and from Sampson was descended Bay Malton, who ran at York 

 four miles in seven minutes forty-three and a half seconds, being 

 seven and a half seconds less than it was ever done before over 

 the same course. 



On crossing, breeding and rearing the Turf Horse. The subject 

 of crossing is one of the most important which has ever engaged 

 the attention of the breeder or amateur, and it is still left in doubt 

 whether we ought to adhere to remote crossing in propagating the 

 race horse, or that we may successively breed " in and in," viz. 

 putting horses and mares together of the same family. 



All that we can do is to disclose the facts whiclvthat unerring 

 guide, experience, has established, and the exceptions to the rule 

 which those facts have pointed out to us. Crossing, or intermix- 

 ing the blood of different racing breeds, has ever prevailed upon 

 the turf, and experience has proven it to be a rational practice, 

 when adopted with the view of an interchange of the requisite 

 qualifications, external or internal ; such as the union of speed 

 and bottom, slenderness and substance, short and long shapes. 



Experience tells us that the greatest success has ever attended 

 those breeders and that the most valuable stock has resulted there- 

 from, who have adhered to remote crosses. The finest running 

 and highest formed horses that have appeared in England were bred 

 from the union of two distinct stocks, the Herod and Eclipse. The 

 former stock was invariably remarkable for stoutness and lasting- 

 ness, the latter for speed and by the union of these opposite 



