The Horse of America in His Derivation, History, and DevelopmentWallace, John Hankins
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The Horse of America in His Derivation, History, and Development
Wallace, John Hankins
Horse breeds -- History; Horses -- Breeding -- United States; Horses -- United States -- History
3. Royal Mares: King Charles the Second sent abroad the master
of the horse, to procure a number of foreign horses and mares
for breeding, and the mares brought over by him (as also many
of their produce) have since been called Royal Mares.
4. Dodsworth, though foaled in England, was a natural Barb.
His dam, a Barb mare, was imported in the time of Charles
the Second, and was called a Royal Mare. She was sold by the
studmaster, after the king’s death, for forty guineas, at
twenty years old, when in foal (by the Helmsley Turk) with
Vixen, dam of the Old Child Mare.
5. The Stradling or Lister Turk was brought into England by the
Duke of Berwick, from the siege of Buda, in the reign of James
the Second. He got Snake, the D. of Kingston’s Brisk and Piping
Peg, Coneyskins, the dam of Hip, and the grandam of Bolton
Sweepstakes.
6. The Byerly Turk was Captain Byerly’s charger in Ireland,
in King William’s wars (1869, etc.). He did not cover many
bred mares, but was the sire of D. of Kingston’s Sprite, who
was thought nearly as good as Leedes; the D. of Rutland’s
Black Hearty and Archer, and the D. of Devonshire’s Basto, Ld.
Bristol’s Grasshopper, and Ld. Godolphin’s Byerly Gelding,
all in good forms: Halloway’s Jigg, a middling horse; and
Knightley’s Mare, in a very good form.
7. Greyhound. The cover of this foal was in Barbary, after
which both his sire and dam were purchased, and brought into
England by Mr. Marshall. He was got by King William’s White
Barb Chillaby, out of Slugey, a natural Barb Mare. Greyhound
got the D. of Wharton’s Othello, said to have beat Chanter
easily in a trial, giving him a stone, but who, falling lame,
ran only one match in public, against a bad horse; he also got
Panton’s Whitefoot, a very good horse; Osmyn, a very fleet
horse and in good form for his size; the D. of Wharton’s Rake,
a middling horse; Ld. Halifax’s Sampson, Goliah and Favorite,
pretty good 12-stone Plate horses; Desdemona, and other good
mares, and several ordinary Plate horses, who ran in the North
where he was a common stallion and covered many of the best
mares.
8. The D’Arcy White Turk was the sire of Old Hautboy, Grey
Royal, Cannon, etc.
9. The D’Arcy Yellow Turk was the sire of Spanker, Brimmer, and
the great-great-grandam of Cartouch.
10. The Marshall or Selaby Turk was the property of Mr.
Marshall’s brother, studmaster to King William, Queen Anne, and
King George the first. He got the Curwen Old Spot, the dam of
Windham, the dam of Derby Ticklepitcher, and great-grandam of
Bolton Sloven and Fearnought.
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