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satisfied if the operation would render him in any way service- 
able. Operated on the 27th August. The improvement was 
not at first very marked, but a few days made great alteration : he 
soon went to work, and now shews but a very slight limp, which 
will always continue, from so much deformity having been the 
result of the primary disease. In all probability, anchylosis of 
the small pastern or coffin-joint had taken place when I last 
saw him, about a week since, as I observed the diseased foot to 
be increased in size. 
REMARKS ON THE PEDIGREES OF HORSES. 
By Wm. Goodwin, M.R.C.S., Veterinary Surgeon to the Queen. 
In the last number of The Veterinarian I find, among 
the “ Miscellanea*,” some observations upon the early history 
of the English thorough-bred horse, some of which are not 
quite correct. As the subject is an interesting one, I have 
made a few extracts, chiefly from the stud-book, to elucidate 
the circumstances ; which, I hope, will be found to contain a 
more particular account than we have in your notice of the 
pedigrees of those horses whence may be traced the breed of 
all the horses of the present day. 
The “ Darley Arabian,” — and not the Damley Arabian, as 
you have it — was brought over by a brother of Mr. Darley, of 
Yorkshire, who, being an agent in merchandize abroad, became 
a member of a hunting club, by which means he acquired in- 
terest to procure this horse. He was sire of Childers, and also 
got Almanzor, a very good horse ; likewise, a white- legged horse 
of the Duke of Somerset’s, full brother to Almanzor, and thought 
to be as good ; though, from meeting with an accident, he never 
ran in public. Add Cupid and Brisk, both good horses ; Daedalus, 
a very fleet horse ; Dart, Skipjack, Maurice, and Calypso, good 
plate horses, though out of bad mares. He covered very few 
mares, except Mr. Darley’s, who had but few well-bred besides 
Almanzor’s dam. 
The second source, from which has sprung a very numerous 
class of our best horses, may be said to be the “ Byerly Turk.” 
He was Captain Byerly’s charger in Ireland, in King William’s 
wars (1689). Pie did not cover many thorough-bred mares, 
but was the sire of the Duke of Kingston’s Sprite, the Duke of 
* The article was sent as an “Extract,” but without authority attached to it. — 
Ed. YfA. 
