76 TiTES AXD BREEDS 



Turks referred to in Thoroughbred history were of this 

 breeding. 



Tlie influence of the so-called Onental blood has been well 

 extended. The Darley Arabian, Bverly Turk, and Godolphin 

 Barb, w^th the Barb or Boyal mare?, are considered the real 

 foundation of the Thoroughbred. 



The Percheron owes much to the Oriental sire- with which 

 the native French mares were mated. Gallipoli and Godolpliin 

 were two of the most important of these sires. 



The Xorfolk trotter was the result of mating Barbs with 

 the black trotters of Friesland. The Cleveland Bay represents 

 a Barb- Yorkshire cart horse cross. 



Bars I, progenitor of the Russian Orloff, was three genera- 

 tions removed from Smetanxa, a gray Arabian imfx>rted into 

 Russia. The Prussian Trakehner is derived from an admixture 

 of Oriental and Thoroughbred blood with the native stock of the 

 country. 



In America, imported Grand Bashaw, a Barb* brought from 

 Tripoli, founded through his immediate descendants the Clay, 

 Patchen and Bashaw families. Leopard, an Arab, and Linden 

 Tree, a Barb, presented to General Grant, were used by Ran- 

 dolph Huntingdon in his creation of the Clay Arabian. Zil- 

 caadi, an Arab from Turkey, sired the darn of GobMust, the 

 founder of the Morgan family of that name. 



THE THOEOUGHBRED 



Thoroughbred is the proper name of the Englisli runnincf race 

 horse breed, and any other application of the tenn to horses is 

 incorrect. It should not be confused nor used synonymously 

 with " pure bred," the adjective employed to denote the absence 

 of any alien blood in the ancestry. 



It is not probable, in view of what we know of the history of 

 horses in Great Britain, that the origin of the Thoroughbred was 

 of Oriental blood exclusively, although their lineage has Ix^en 

 carefully guarded for so long that all trace of the common stock 

 of the country, if any ever existed, has long since been bred out, 

 and they are therefore truly " thoroughbred." 



