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action, courage, manners, staying power, and 

 soundness. What would you more ? 



PEDIGREE OF THE HACKNEY. 



Incessant repetition of part of a truth is 

 certain in course of time to elevate the 

 fraction to the dignity of the whole ; frequent 

 reiteration of the one fact that our thorough- 

 breds are descended from a few horses of 

 Eastern origin is therefore likely to obscure 

 the larger fact that our thoroughbreds are 

 not the only descendants of that Eastern 

 stock. The thoroughbreds of to-day trace 

 their descent to the Byerly Turk imported 

 in 1689, to the Darley Arabian imported 

 in 1706, and the Godolphin Arabian im- 

 ported twenty-four years later. 



The term "thoroughbred " was adopted to 

 denote the progeny of these three sires with 

 the Royal Mares, called " King's Mares," 

 imported into England from the East, in the 

 reign of King Charles II. ; and it cannot be 

 too often and too closely pressed home upon 

 breeders that in all Hackney pedigrees the 

 foundation sire is found to be no other than 

 that same Darley Arabian whose blood in the 

 racehorse is the cachet of breeding fashion ! 



There is diversity of opinion as to which 



