Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-10-15

ENGLAND AND THE BRITISH ISLES

Somerset full brother Amanzo and thought to be good
but meeting with accident he in public Cupid and
Brisk good horses Dndau very fleet horse Dart Skpjack
Manc and Aeppo good plate horses though bad
Lord Lonsdac very good and Lord Traccy
good for plates He covered few except Mr. Oar
lcys, who had few wc-brcd besides Almanzors dam.
Sir Williams (more frequently called Ioncywood
Aabian) got Honcywoods True Blues The elder them
the best plate horse England for four OF five years the
younger very high and got the Romford gcng and
Lord Onsows grey horse mddg horses of road 1t
is known that this Turk covered except the dam of
the two True Blues.
The Belgrade Turk was taken the siege Belgrade by
Mcc and by him the Prince de Craon whom
present Prince Lorraine He afterwards pur
chased by Sir Mamadukc Wy and died his possession about
174O.
"'Of Bloody Buocks nothing further be traced from the
papers of the late Mr. Cof than that he grey Arabian with
a red mark on his hip, whence he derived his
Bay Barb got by Chlaby, OF the Moonah
Barb mare.
The Godolphn Arabian brown bay about IS hands
high with white the off heel behind There picture OF
him and his avoure the library Cog Magog Cambridge
place died. the possession Lord Godophin
I753, being then supposed be in his tvcntynnh year
"'Whethcr he Arabian Barb is point disputed
(s portrait would lead the latter upposion but his excellence
stallion is generally admitted In 1884, then the property OF
Mr. Coke, he IIobgobln who refusing
put the Arabian and from that produced
1ah the first OF his get 1t is remarkable that there
superior horse the turf without of the Codolphn
Arabian neither has there been for many years past There
original portrait this Lord Cholmondccys collection
IIoughon comparing which with Mr. Stubs print of him.
will be that the dproporonay small limbs represented
in the latter do not accord with the painting"
OF all best racchorsc Of
past and have descended that down the
day the Derby and St Ledger may be invariably traced
the Oriental scs of the seventeenth century recorded by Mr.
Wcatherby.
The prize OF races in the time OF James bell which in
the time OF Charles H. exchanged for bowl the original Kings
the George H. the silver bowl replaced by
purse guincas day the Queens
bo o1 Jr1o
land and Ireland the about three thousand six hundred
guncas-tcn the English plates being paid Her
Mac Pry Purse the remainder and the Scotch Plates OF
the Consolidated Fund; and the Irish Plates by Par
Lament But the encouragement select breed and train horses
and thus improve the breed of British horses
in these early days much the public prizes bells bowls the
rivalry between and countless between the
South supported by heavy wagcrs.
There sporting newspapers report races
Racing Calendars have been collected by Mr. Weaherby that
farther than the Book present many
still familiar amongst nobility and gentry breeders of blood
horses.
In 1920 there tvent-six matches Newmarket
and for hundred previously had been the kings
favourte park OF Theobads Enfield, Croydon, EPSON
while during Charles H. reign Newmarket became
since the headquarters of the racing world From the beginning
the eighteenth century racing became the
Yorkshire which has always pre-eminent
horscmen.
"Wcahcrby gives the second part his Book
pcdgrec5 than hundred horses and be-
I7I and 1882 These are it will be Observed all closely
allied Oriental blood the English stallion appearing
Bao (by the Byerey Tu he died 1928. Among the celeb
rites Bald Galloway by Barb OF Charles IL royal
the sire of CartOuche who Places
Horse Cromwe) White Turk Caouche while the posses
OF Sir William Morgan of Tdegar covered several
Wales.
Bonny Black, oaled in I7I5 very famous by
of the Byey Turk her dam by Persian stallion thus probably,
with at least two of English blood"
"'Jigg the Partner capital horse, whom portrait
by Seymour eXant stallion in Lincolnshire till
years old while foaled I7IS
the best Yorkshire years. He bred