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chased in Paris, where he had been drawing a cart. He was 
brought to England, and placed in the stud of Lord Godolphin, 
where he became the sire of Lath, a superior horse of his day : 
this brought the Arabian into repute, and he bears the honour 
of being the founder of the best strain of blood we possess. 
Squirt, the sire of Marske, was condemned to be shot, and, when 
on the road to the .kennel to meet his fate, a reprieve was granted 
at the intercession of the groom. He subsequently became the 
sire of Marske. The last-named horse was sold at Tattersall’s, 
after the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumber- 
land, for a mere trifle to a farmer, who sold him again for twenty 
guineas. The Earl of Abingdon eventually became a purchaser 
at one thousand guineas, the horse’s renown being established 
by the performances of Eclipse, of whom Marske was the sire. 
Had Chesterfield survived the glories of his son, there is every 
reason to suppose he w’ould have risen from his obscurity, and 
become one of the most fashionable horses of the day.” — pp. 64-5. 
“ In breeding hunters or carriage horses, the selection of stal- 
lions may be less important than for the turf; at all events, dif- 
ferent qualities are required. Symmetry is of far greater con- 
sequence than blood, good sound legs and feet than speed, lofty 
action more to be coveted than length of stride ; colour and temper 
also come under the category of desiderata. When the fashion 
prevailed of running half-bred horses, it was discovered that 
those were most superior which had the stain on the mare’s 
side, — in other words, that the sire should be thorough-bred : 
the same principle holds good with hunters, for, at the pace they 
are now required to go, every event calculated to furnish them 
with endurance must be resorted to in order to render them 
valuable; and as the worth of a horse is enhanced if he shews 
properties adapted for steeple-chasing, that must be another 
motive for attention to such qualifications.” — p. 73. 
To the question of what constitutes the title to the epithet 
thoroughbred , our author replies — 
“ He (the thoroughbred horse) is one whose genealogy can 
be traced in the Stud Book, or whose sire or dam is an accredited 
Arabian or horse of Eastern origin, represented as being of the 
pure blood of the country from whence he was imported. Any 
attempt to dive into the mysteries in which the origin of the 
thoroughbred horse is enveloped would be superfluous. The 
errors as to data or periods when certain horses are stated by 
some ancient authors to have existed, are so numerous as to 
leave the reader in much perplexity. Writers of a later date 
have endeavoured to explain these discrepancies, in doing which 
they have fallen into mistakes calculated to increase the confu- 
