The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 68, July 1964 - April, 1965 Page: 315
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Origin and Development of the Arabian Horse 315
bay and not one in two thousand is black. The gray and the
occasional "paint" is almost always an escaped domestic animal.
By contrast, the blood of the North American horse was more
diffused and the colors more varigated. Thus, the concentration
of "European" blood in the Spanish horses originally introduced
into North America was about the same as that of the English
pony and much greater than in subsequent importations in both
North and South America. The up-grading in both the Spanish
and English colonies came later.
By the eighteenth century, the English colonists were purchas-
ing horses from the Indians and the types of Indian horses had
become sufficiently fixed to be described as breeds. The Chicka-
saw breed, sometimes called the Choctaw breed, was particularly
esteemed for crossing with the English blooded horses, especially
in the John's Island Stud. The Seminole breed were said to be
"the most beautiful and sprightly species of that noble creature
to be seen anywhere; but they are a small breed and as delicately
formed as the American roe buck."S6 The English blood horse
gave them size. Thus, the great American breeds of horses were
developed from a fusion of horses of different origins, the only
common element of which was the blood of the North African
horse.
To insist upon the importance of the blood of the Barbary
Arabian horse is to belabor the obvious. The Thoroughbred was
created from predominately Barb blood and it became a winning
breed when the blood of the Godolphin sire became generally
diffused in the racing stock. A cursory examination of the pedi-
gree of Justin Morgan, founding sire of the Morgan breed, shows
him to be an inbred Barb.87 The Quarter horse traces to the
Roanoke Stud of John Randolph and the blood of Janus, a grand-
son of the Godolphin Barb. Most of the national breeds of horses,
not only in the United States, but in all of the nations bordering
upon the Atlantic were developed at a time when North African
blood was available, and North African blood was used by pref-
erence. If that blood is not Arabian, then the claim of the Arabian
"8Harrison, The John's Island Stud, 69g.
8Reproduced in Conn, The Arabian Horse in America, 131, from Battel's Morgan
Horse Registry.
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