The Godolp/mt Arabian, 157 



Reginald Heber (who combined " mild York River 

 Tobacco, finest Dicrham Mustard, and right Wood- 

 stock gloves," with the Racing Calendar business), 

 was quite a literary exercitation, with the owners 

 of that day. They are for the most part decisive 

 in their meaning, but wild in their grammar. Dor- 

 mouse, for instance, " has strength in proportion, and a 

 shape that promises to have been a racer, but was 

 lamed at a year old, therefore not trained, though he 

 walks upright ;" while Newcomb's Arabian was " more 

 like the Godolphin, than ever a horse was seen." The 

 Bell-Size Arabian had '* his unexceptionable pedigree 

 and certificates lodged in the hands of Mr, Skcet, at 

 the VictiLalling Office /" while the owner of the black 

 brown, from Damascus, scorns the idea of his having 

 any mixture of Turcoman or Barb in his veins, and 

 invites inspection of the same " certified on Stamp 

 Paper at Smeaton near Northalarton." " He was 

 bred," says that document, " by the Arab who is 

 Sheick or Chief of Aeria, noted for his breed of horses, 

 and, when a foal, presented to the Bashaw of Damas- 

 cus, and given by him to a rich Tw'k merchant at 

 Aleppo, with whom the Bashaw had great Dealings in 

 Money Affairs." 



History says little of Old Cade, except Match'emand 

 that he was a worthy inheritor of the ^"^P- 

 honours, which, in a stable sense, ''gleamed tipon Go- 

 dolphin's breast',' and that his most renowned son 

 Match'em could command a fifty-pound fee when he 

 was seven-and-twenty. It used to be a boast among 

 the touts, that they could tell a Match'em in the dark, 

 from the way he laid his legs to the ground, and 

 " Snap for speed and Match'em for truth and day- 

 light" was quite a paddock axiom. From a union of 

 the latter and a Snap mare, Conductor sprang. It 

 was a peculiarity of the Snap tribe, that the colts 

 uniformly ran well, but seldom got a winner ; while 

 this order of nature was just reversed in the fillies, who 



