Bolton and Lampice) was bred by the d'Arcy family, and got by the White d'Arcy or Sedbury Turk out of a Royal Mare. King Charles II sent abroad the Master of the Horse (which was said by some to be Sir Christopher Wyvill, and by others Sir John Fenwick) in order to procure a number of foreign high-bred horses and mares for breeding; and the mares thus procured by the king's interest and brought into England (as also several of their offspring) have been called Royal Mares; one of which was the dam of Hautboy. He was never trained for racing, and was well known to sportsmen and breeders by the name of Wilkes's Old Hautboy. He was sire of Old Wyndham, Mr. Fell's Painted Lady, Sir John Parson's Ploughman, Farmer and Clumsy, all three bred by Mr. Wilkes; the latter of which was sire of Old Fox and Fox Club. Hautboy also got the mare that was the dam of Mr. Darley's Almanzor, Terror and Champion; the dam of Mr. Lister's Snake; the dam of the sire of the Gardener Mare, and several others.

The Acaster Turk, was sire of Chaunter's Terror and Mr. Thwaite's Dun Mare (dam of Mr. Beaver's Driver.) He got the dam of Mr. Williams's Squirrel; the dam of Mr. Ovington's famous Roxana (dam of Lath and Cade ;) the dam of Mr. Coke's Silverlocks, who was the dam of Lord Portmore's Silvertail, Lord Godolphin's Buffcoat, and grandam of Mr. Croft's Brilliant.

Mr. Scroope's Trusty's dam was own sister to Silverlocks; Mr. Panton's Cato was out of an own sister to Roxana; and Mr. Greville's Molly Longlegs's dam was out of an own sister to Cato. He covered very few mares.

The Belgrade Turk (sire of Young Belgrade), was taken at the Siege of Belgrade in Turkey, from the Bashaw of that place, by General Mercé, by whom he was sent to the Prince de Craon, who presented him to the Prince of Lorraine (afterwards Emperor) whose Minister in London sold him to Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, Bart. in whose possession he died about the year 1740.

The White Turk (sire of the Old Thornton Mare) was the property of Mr. Place, stud groom to Oliver Cromwell, when Lord Protector of England. He was also sire of Mr. Crofts's Commoner, Wormwood, etc. he got the great grandams of Old Sear, Wyndham Crutches, Old Cartouch and several others.

The Turk (sire of Snake) was brought into England by the Duke of Berwick, from the siege of Buda in the reign of King James II., and was as often called the Shadling as the Lister Turk; he was also sire of the Duke of Kingstone's Brisk and Peping Peg; of the Duke of Rutland's Coneyskins, and of the grandam of the Duke of Bolton's Sweepstakes.

The Turk (sire of Batt), was the property of Sir William Strickland, Bart. and was sire of

Colonel Howard's Chesnut Mare, that won the King's Plate for mares at Newmarket in 1728, beating eleven others. He covered very few

mares.

CHAPTER V.

Zoological Classification of the Horse-Its external structure-Teeth, &c.-Size, Formation, Colour, Speed, &c. of the thorough-bred Horse.

BEFORE proceeding further on the subject, we consider it highly, if not absolutely necessary, to give some explanation of the generic character and external structure of the horse.

The genus equus, or horse, is placed by the great naturalist, Baron Cuvier, in the class Mammalia, which contains those animals that suckle their young, and forms the ninth genus of his sixth order, called Pachydermata.

The class Mammalia is still exceedingly large, and we find it thus subdivided.*

1. Those whose extremities are divided into fingers or toes, scientifically called unguiculata from the Latin word for nail; and, 2, those whose extremities are hoofed, scientifically called, ungulata, from the Latin word for hoof.

Library of Entertaining Knowledge, (Vol. I. p. 13).

The extremities of the first are armed with claws, or nails, which enable them to grasp, to climb, or to burrow. The extremities of the second tribe, are employed merely to support and move the body.

The extremities of the horse are covered with a hoof, by which the body is supported, and with which he cannot grasp anything, and therefore he belongs to the tribe ungulata or hoofed.

But there is a great variety of hoofed animals. The elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the swine, the horse, the sheep, the deer, and many others, are ungulata or hoofed. They admit however, of an easy division. Some of them masticate or chew their food, and it is immediately received into the stomach, and digested; but in others, the food, previous to digestion, undergoes a very singular process; it is returned to the mouth, to be re-masticated or chewed again. These are called ruminantia or ruminants, from the food being returned from one of the stomachs, (for they have four) called the rumen, or paunch, to be chewed again.

The ungulata that do not ruminate, are somewhat improperly called pachydermata, from the thickness of their skins. The horse does not ruminate, and therefore belongs to the order pachydermata.

The pachydermata who have only one toe, belong to the family solipeda, single-footed. There