The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-04
GODOLPHIN BARB
 KING OF THE TURF Mas Brought Over to England
 bya Quaker HAD FAITHFUL ATTENDAN1 l zenadar, Progenltor of the Modern Thoroughbred, Has Friend In
 Agba, an Arabian Boy.
 Barb's Great Race.
HAD FAITHFUL ATTENDANT I
BY A. E. cAFFEE.

BY A. E. cAFFEE.
 It is not of the mighty turf battles of today that this article will tell. for they are, or should be, familiar to every one whose blood flows faster when the rata plan of the hoof beats on the track reaches the listening. eager ear. l shall tell you about the great racers riders and breeders of the evanished years.
 As the years and centuries have rolled on the name of Goldphin Arabian CZena- dar) has been one to conjure with by horsemen of every land. A great deal of romance and trash have been written about this stallion of the desert, the Godolphin Arabian, or Zenabax on his native sands. The substantial facts how ever, are that he was found in posses sion of a brutal drayman in Paris by an English Quaker whose keen sympathies were so aroused that he bought the tough looking animal in that spirit of gentle compassion for all living things harshiy treated which is the market characteristic of these gentle, kindly people The Arap boy, Agbar, who had come to Paris with the horse was found and installed to his caretakor II is possible that the Quaker who had purchased the horse in the streets of Paris to save him from the brutalites of the French drayman, had a fund of horse sense slowed away De- meath his pietN. For he had learned the story of the barb and had determined to take him home to England, ito make a good hack for my son-in-law. the min ister" Ii seems he soon became. enam- ored of the horse of the desert, for the good attention which Agba, who went to England with him. bestowed on him soon produced the result that Zenabar found rising with him the indomitable spirit of the Arab which we find evil deneed in his prineely line, the American thoroughbred
 When Agla had fed ana petted and indulged Zenadar into something like himself the horse was q painful sur prise to the gentle Quaker. He had upon his hands highbred nervous, de- termined wifm stallion instead of starved beaten and cowed cart horse.
 Woe For the Parson.
 About this time Zanadar give to the ministerial son-in-law some equestrian sensations which were distinctly shock ing" The son-in-law, being a contidng person, put leg over" the hack wh:-si had been brought from Paris, and something happened to him. With all the fire of his tribe of the desert zenebar began to "cut up" As the Quaker observed ethe creature started very suddenly and with such speed. and in manner so unnecessary and ill-timed. that if 1t had not been for a swampy piece of ground into which my son-in- law was fortunately thrown. and in which the beast himself became embog- ged, there would have been no stopping then for five or six miles. And then. when we had changed the bit upon him, then this untameable creature reared up so straight upon his hind legs that had not my son-in-law luckily slipped over his crupper the fiery brute would be- yond doubt have rolled upon him."
 Zenebar did other unseemly things, such as mangling q pony or two for the Quaker, who. finally in great thankful ness at finding purchaser. disposed of him to a MT. Rogers. The horse was starved by Rogers to subdue his spirit and Agba, the Arab boy, was thrown into prison for hewitehng the horse. The Duchess of Marlborough, visiting New gate prison. saw the wretched boy and felt such pity for him that she enlisted the sympathies of Lord Godolphin and the boy was set free, Then the horse was sent for, as the boy would not be parted from the animal So Zanadar the barb passed into the possession of Lord Godol- phin As in the case of the Quaker hu- manity alone prompted the purchase.
 Horse Grows Apace.
 Well. the Godolphin Arabian. as he now became known, grew apaee in spite of the contempt in which he was held and the English prejudice against the horses of rabia.. or indeed any country outside of England And, in spite of tho historic fact that all that was best in English blood had come from Arabian crosses there was a firm stand by the breeders against going back to that blood for the purpose of re- enforcing the weakening lines of English horses.
 zenadar was given no chance in the stud to prove his worth, or on the turf until one afternoon when Lord Godolphin envaged at the appearance of the barb when his magnificent premier stallion, Hobgoblin. was being exhibited to yis- itors, ordered Agba to mount Zenadar and race against the great Hobgoblln,, that he might ever be disgraced as his Arabian blood should be disgraced by the stout English blood of Hobgoblin. The race was a long distance one across a stream 30 feet wide where the horses had to clear the stream from bank to bank The despised son of the desert defeated the great English thoroughbred.
 That both horses might be spurred to the utmost endeavor that royal old broo& mare, Roxana, was led to the finishing point of the course. crown for the vic tor. Lord Godolphin and his friends were gathered midway the course to witness. as they supposed, the ignomnous defeat of the hated barb from Arabia. The boy Agba was mounted upon Zenabar; an English lad bestrode Hobgoblin, the King.
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 So fas flew the news of the Titanic deeds Agba and Zenadar that Eugene Sue, leaving "The Wandering Jew'' and "The Mysteries of Paris" for a time to follow the fortunes of these two sons of the sandy plains of Arabia, tells the wonderful story of this potential race. Listen:
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