8 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE. 
The blooded horse of the present age is best known as a type in the 
English race horse. The founding of the stud-book has led to the forma- 
tion of a race that in perpetuity of quality is not inferior to the Arab, and 
in other respects superior. In delicacy of organism the Arab is. still 
the standard representative, although the English horse is sufficiently so to 
lift it above the varied class. The admixture of thoroughbred blood with 
the cold-blooded horses of the north will however produce the same phe- 
nomena as the Arab produces. 
Though the distinctive breeding of horses entitled to a place in the 
stud-book is Arabian, the best and most lasting results are traceable to but 
very few. In fact,three horses have given us the majority of all the recog- 
nized thoroughbreds at this time, and their lines have been handed down 
through celebrated individuals, while all others have been lost to view. 
The three horses of Arabian blood which thus figure so largely in found- 
ing the race were the Darley Arabian (imported from Aleppo), the Byerly- 
Turk, and the Godolphin, safdosed to be a Barb or Arab, The lines of 
breeding from these are respectively known as the Darley line, the Herod 
line (Herod being the main branch of the Byerly-Turk descent), and the 
Godolphin line. 
Numerous other Arabians, Barbs, Turks and Spanish horses lent their 
influence in strengthening the race, but in a comparatively subordinate 
degree, and their names are to be found in the more remote crosses of 
tabulated pedigrees, so that this triple division may stand. 
THE DARLEY LINE. 
The celebrated Flying Childers gave prominence to the Darley Arabian 
by virtue of performance, although another son of the Darley and a full 
brother to Flying Childers, called Bartlett’s or Bleeding Childers, perpet- 
uates the fame of his sire in the male line to a greater extent. The Darley 
was a light bay, with three white feet and a snip. The principal value of 
his line is its quality of producing game and lasting race horses, the more 
so if they take on the character, color and marks of their famous founder. 
This line is held to be the most valuable of the thoroughbreds. Flying 
Childers, by the Darley, was a bay, with four white feet and a snip, was 
fifteen hands high, and is accounted by some to have been the swiftest 
and best race horse ever known. He is best represented in the male line 
through his sons Blaze and Snip. But the grand current of succession is 
through Darley, Bartlett’s Childers, Squirt, Marske, and Eclipse, in the order 
named, Childers’ dam was Betty Leeds; Squirt’s dam a Snake mare (a 
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