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Other Arabians were imported after the Godolphin, but it is a curious 

 fact that very few of them figure much in English pedigrees. With the 

 arrival of the Godolphin the English thoroughbred seems to have 

 reached his growth. The blood of the native Arab was no more 

 needed. Indeed the English race horse, as a race horse, had become 

 superior to the race from which he sprung. With increased height, 

 about sixteen hands rather than about fifteen, he had acquired in- 

 creased speed at the mile or four miles, and, in his propagation, had be- 

 come entirely independent of the parent stock. Whether the in- 

 creased size of the English horse over the Arab, or how much of it, is 

 due to the native and unknown blood of England admitted through 

 dams that appear as unknown, it is impossible to say. The leaven of 

 this blood no doubts helps to make the difference between the Eng- 

 lish thoroughbred of to-day and the Arab, but undoubtedly, too, this 

 difference is largely due to the different objects sought in the breed- 

 ing. The Arab still breeds his horse for use upon the desert. The 

 Englishman breeds his for use upon the race course. The two uses 

 require a very different animal, and so a different animal has been 

 produced. 



The first horses imported to the English Colonies in America 

 were the native stock of England. To a large extent, certainly, these 

 were small. It would appear that they were inexpensive horses, 

 cheaply purchased in England and easily raised in America. The 

 first of the improved breed in England, the English race horse, 

 brought to America, that we have account of, was the stallion Tam- 

 erlane and several mares imported by Wm. Penn, into Pennsylvania, 

 about 1697. The results of this importation have entirely disap- 

 peared, and the first of the English thoroughbreds brought to this 

 country, whose blood appears in American pedigrees, was the stal- 

 lion Bulle Rock, by the Darley Arabian, foaled about 1718 and imported 

 into Virginia, it is said, in 1730. There followed, imported to Vir- 

 ginia, about in the order named : 



Dabster, sorrel, blaze in face, white legs, flaxen mane and tail, 

 glass eyes, said to be foaled 1735 and imported 1741 ; got by Hob- 

 goblin, son of Aleppo: dam by Spanker; 2d dam by Hautboy. 

 Edgar says he got, in general, very good stock. 



Monkey, foaled 1725, imported 1747; got by the Lonsdale Bay 

 Arabian. He is said to have got about two hundred and fifty colts in 

 America and to have died in 1754. His stock were excellent. 



Jolly Roger, chestnut, foaled 1741 and died in Greenville county, 

 Virginia, 1772; got by Roundhead, son of Flying Childers : dam by 



