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With scarcely an exception, the Hack- 

 ney sires of to-day descend in the direct 

 line from this famous horse. The Darley 

 Arabian begat Flying Childers (foaled 17 15), 

 the speediest race-horse of his time, and 

 considered by many a better horse than 

 Eclipse ; Flying Childers begat Blaze ; and 

 it was through Blaze that the county of 

 Norfolk achieved fame for its breed of 

 Hackneys. Blaze (foaled 1733) was the sire 

 of the Original Shales, foaled in 1755 out 

 of a Norfolk mare. 



Shales, so far as is known, had only two 

 sons, Scots' Shales and Driver (187), the 

 latter out of a mare by Foxhunter, by the 

 famous horse Sampson. 



The directness of the descent of the Hack- 

 neys of to-day from the Darley Arabian 

 may be most conveniently and clearly shown 

 by setting out the pedigree of the male line 

 of the defunct Hackney sire Danegelt : — 



The Darley Arabian, foaled 1702, begat 

 Flying Childers, foaled 171 5, who begat 

 Blaze, foaled 1733, *ho begat 

 Shales (the original, 699), foaled 1755, 



who begat 



Driver (187), foaled 1765, who begat 

 Fireaway (Jenkinson's, 201), foaled 1780,. 



who beo-at 



