. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 101 5 lived espect, which i lights I guide ;h they •m and hensive in the a per- 0 beget day, in !argaux, ish turf, n stock- his day, le Leger the race ved, but regards )od, and, ;h I have ection of r formed horse, he le is him- jre, 18 tne admitted jreeder of loosing an e, himself er of win* ncrs, before any ' known, technically fpeaking, darh, Arab or Barb liorse, how> > er beautiful, that s
. Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America [microform]. Horses; Race horses; Chevaux; Chevaux de course. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 101 5 lived espect, which i lights I guide ;h they •m and hensive in the a per- 0 beget day, in !argaux, ish turf, n stock- his day, le Leger the race ved, but regards )od, and, ;h I have ection of r formed horse, he le is him- jre, 18 tne admitted jreeder of loosing an e, himself er of win* ncrs, before any ' known, technically fpeaking, darh, Arab or Barb liorse, how> > er beautiful, that should now be imported. The same was, then, the opinion of a great breeder and greater rider in his day, founded as it seems on experience, for any thing except race-horses, if not for race-horses—in speaking of breeding especially for the turf, he afterward gives the pre- ference to the Barb. Now, it seems to me more than possible, more even than probable, that there was in those days, in Spain, a breed of i'le best Spanisli horses, which might trace directly, or as nearly directly as the best English horses now do, to oriental dam and oriental sire ; and that, consequently, there may have been as just a reason for preference of the then Spanish to the then Eastern stallion, as there is for that of the present English thoroughbred to the present untried courser of the Desert; and that, therefore, there may be in the present pure blood-horse of Great Britain and America, yet another unsuspected cross of pure Desert blood,.from an unsuspected source. In the reign of which the Marquis of Newcastle writes, that of Charles 11., the English Turf was for the first time fairly established. That king sent his master of the horse to the Le- vant especially to import both mares and stallions, and it is through these females, kno^vn as the royal mares, that our pre- sent race-horse draws his claim to pure blood, since it is evident thr.,t, but for these, there must have been in all, as
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