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REMARKS ON THE PEDIGREES OF HORSES. 
Rutland’s Blackhearty and Archer, the Duke of Devonshire’s 
Basto, Lord Bristol’s Grasshopper, & c. 
And the third and favourite origin of many, but whose pro- 
geny are certainly not so numerous as the other two in the 
production of racers, is the Godolphin Arabian. He was a 
brown bay, about fifteen hands, with some white on the off heel 
behind. There is a picture of him and his favourite cat in the 
library at Gog Magog, Cambridgeshire, where he died, in the 
possession of Lord Godolphin, in 1753, then supposed to be in 
his twenty-ninth year. 
That he was a genuine Arabian, his excellence as a stallion 
is deemed sufficient proof. In 1831, then the property of 
Mr. Coke, he was teazer to Hobgoblin, who, refusing to cover 
Roxana, caused her to be put to the Arabian, and from that leap 
was produced “Lath/’ the first of his get. 
Many years ago, I was struck with the originality of some 
genealogical tables that were designed by a Mr. Lounin, a 
Russian, which have since been published in the Russian Stud 
Book. Mr. Lounin, who is since dead, was not far wrong in 
taking the above horses as the three sources from which all 
our best animals have sprung. The plan adopted was to trace 
the paternal side, and enumerate only such horses as were 
grandsires of winners; by which means we have a collection 
from which, you will perceive, it is easy to derive the pedigrees 
of all our horses of the present day. 
1689 Byerly Turk 
J'g 
1718 Partner 
1749 Tartar 
1758 Herod 
1774 Highflyer 
1784 Sir Peter 
1799 Walton 
1811 Partisan 
1724 Godolphin 
Arabian 
1734 Cade 
1748 Matchem 
1767 Conductor 
1782 Trumpeter 
1796 Sorcerer 
1808 Soothsayer 
1815 Welbeck 
1823 Bedlamite 
About 
L700 Darley’s Ara- 
bian 
1716 Bartlett’s Chil- 
ders 
1732 Squirt 
1750 Marok 
1764 Eclipse 
1773 Pot-8-oos 
1790 Waxy 
1807 Whalebone 
1822 Camel. 
Now, by only inserting such horses as were sires of stallions 
that got winners, we have the entire paternal line of every 
horse in the kingdom. 
Take, for instance, Touchstone, the property of the Marquis 
of Westminster, and he would come into the above list, being 
the sire of Cotherstone, who is sire of Glauca, and of many 
other winners. Touchstone was got by Camel. A fashionable 
stallion is Melbourn : he was got by Humphrey Clinker ; 
Humphrey Clinker was got by Com us, and Comus by 
