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of Little Scar, Partner, Soreheels and the dam of Crab ; while the other sister pro- 

 duced Silver Eye, Hazard and Quiet. But it was in 1711 that the Curwen Bay Barb 

 most distinguished himself by begetting Brockelsby Betty from Mr. Leedes' Hobby 

 mare by The Lister Turk, also called The Stradling. To this Brocklesby Betty trace, 

 in female tail line such great performers as Songstress and Cyprian, winners of the 

 Epsom Oaks ; Starke and Prioress, bred in America but great winners in England over 

 forty years ago ; and last but not least, Domino and Hamburg, of our own day. 



It was during the reign of James II that the Duke of Berwick, at the siege of 

 Buda, in Hungary in 1686, captured the horse now known as "The Lister Turk," the 

 Duke having sold him to Mr. Lister, of Lincolnshire, who bred many great ones from 

 him. He became the sire of Coneyskins, Snake, Piping Peg and the Duke of Kingston's 

 Brisk. Through Snake and Coneyskins this Lister Turk had become one of the leading 

 Eastern factors in the British Stud ; and "which I wish to remark,'' as the late Bret 

 Harte would have put it, that while we claim English Eclipse (foaled 1764) as the chief 

 and only surviving exponent of the Darley Arabian's male line, an examination of his 

 pedigree will show that Eclipse had but one cross of the Darley Arabian, as against 

 two of the Godolphin Arabian, five of the Lister Turk and nine of Place's White Turk. 

 "Now will you be good ?" 



In the reign of William and Mary, during the war in Ireland where the "Battle of 

 the Boyne was fought, not far from the present site of Drogheda, Capt. Byerly rode 

 an imported Turkish horse, to whom he was indebted for the fact that he was not capt- 

 ured by the irate Paudheens. After "this cruel war was over" this horse was taken 

 to England, where he became one of the pillars of the stud. His best sons on the turf 

 were Spite, .Block Hearty and Basto, sire of the great Soreheels. None of thes were 

 great sires, but his son Jigg got Partner, foaled 1718. Partner got Tartar, who was 

 mated with Cypron by Blaze and produced Herod, the greatest horse of his day, 

 foaled six years before Eclipse. Herod got Highflyer, Woodpecker, Anvil, Phenomenon 

 (imported to America) and a host of other heroes. His get were nineteen years on the 

 turf during which they won 201,505 in money (with racing prizes worth about one- 

 eighth of their present value) besides nine gold cups and forty-three hogsheads of 

 claret. 



During the reign of William and Mary were imported into England the noted Barb 

 horses Chillaby and Slugey, sometimes called Sloughby, a mare claimed by the Morocco 

 people to be desired as a mate for Chiliaby, to whom she produced Greyhound, a noted 

 stallion of that day and sire of the Duke of Wharton's Othello. About the same time 

 were imported the Selaby Turk, sire of the Coppin mare, to which trace Emilius in 

 England and St. Charles, St. Carlo and all the descendants of imported Camilla in 

 America. The Akaster Turk and the Harper Arabian were also imported about this 

 time. The Akaster Turk was the sire of Chanter and Sister to Chanter, that mare 

 being the dam of Lord Godolphin's gray mare Roxana, the dam of Lath and Cade by 

 the Godolphin Arabian. Lath was the best performer and Cade the best sire, his line 

 being still in existence, through Matchem, Conductor, Trumpator, Sorcerer, Comus, 

 Humphrey Clinker and Melbourne, it being through the latter only that the line now 

 exists. 



The Honeywood Arabian was another importation during this reign. He came 

 over to England as the property of Sir John Williams, for which reason he is often 

 known as the "Williams Turk," but he was not a Turk at all. Mr. Honeywood put his 

 Byerly Turk mare to him and the result of that union was True Blue, who proved so 

 good a turf horse that Mr. Honeywood decided to purchase his sire, in consequence of 

 which the horse was forever afterward known as the "Honeywood Arabian." True 

 Blue beat Chanter and six others for the King's Plate at York in 1716, besides winning 

 several other valuable prizes. As the result of this, the Byerly Turk mare was again 

 mated with the Honeywood Arabian and that foal was called Young True Blue. While 



