ON HORSE-BREEDING. 2S 



ingham, and known as Fairfax's Morocco 

 Barb and the Helmsly Turk, laid the 

 foundation of our English thoroughbred 

 stock ; and with their produce nothing else 

 was used for many years, until in fact 

 nearly the end of the seventeenth century, 

 with the exception of three mares of pure 

 breed, known as the Hamburg Mares, which 

 were taken at the siege of Vienna and sent 

 to England in 1684. 



But a few years later three yery notable 

 entire horses were imported, which exerted 

 an extraordinary influence upon the English 

 blood stock as already established. These 

 were : — 



The Byerley Turk, 1689, said to hare 

 been ridden by his owner, Captain Byerley, 

 at the battle of the Boyne, and which, being 

 afterwards put to the stud, became in time 

 the ancestor of Match'em, and thereby of 

 the numerous descendants from that famous 

 sire. 



