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 Byerley Byerly Turk
The Byerley Turk was the great great grandsire of King Herod (b c 1758), the Darley Arabian the great great grandsire of Eclipse (ch c 1764) and the Godolphin Arabian the grandsire of Matchem (b c 1748).
Byerley Turk Mare, a foundation mare of Family 1, dam of Grey Ramsden (gr c 1704 Grey Hautboy), and 4th dam of Old Snap (bl c 1750 Snip).
Byerley Turk Mare, a foundation mare of Family 2, dam of Hutton's Surley (gr c 1708 Hutton's Grey Barb), also known as Hutton's son of the Grey Barb and Hutton's White Turk.
www.bloodlines.net /TB/Bios/ByerlyTurk.htm   (2058 words)

  
 English Foundation Mares
Dam of a mare by the Darley Arabian
Dam of a mare by the Byerley Turk
Dam of a mare by Selaby or Marshall's Turk
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 History of the Thoroughbred - Associated Content
The origin of the thoroughbred is traced back to 17th century England when three stallions from the Middle East were brought to be bred with local horses.
Byerly Turk that is responsible for the first line of thoroughbred Herod whose son, Highflyer, was captured by Captain Robert Byerly at the Battle of Buda.
Captain Byerly rode the stallion during the Battle of Boyne and then brought him to England in 1690.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/25492/history_of_the_thoroughbred.html   (369 words)

  
 Thoroughbred Pedigree and Bloodlines
All modern thoroughbred horses are descendants of three horses: the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian, and the Byerly Turk.
The story of the thoroughbred horse began somewhere in the inhospitable deserts of the Middle East, centuries ago, a breed of horse came into being that would influence the equine world beyond all imagination.
Named for their respective owners - Thomas Darley, Lord Godolphin and Captain Robert Byerley (the second e was accidentally dropped) - these Arabian stallions were bred to the stronger but less precocious and swift native English mares and the result was the Thoroughbred.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Thoroughbred
However, based on paintings from life, the stallion was clearly Arabian in type, a Barb is built differently), and the Byerly Turk (who may have been a Turkoman Horse rather than an Arabian), together with around 35 mares.
Although the Thoroughbred is primarily bred for racing, the breed is also used for show jumping and combined training due to its athleticism, and many retired race horses become fine family riding horses, endurance horses, dressage horses, and youth show horses.
All modern Thoroughbreds descend from one of three ("foundation") stallions imported to England from the Middle East in the late 17th and early 18th centuries: the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian, also known as the Goldophin Barb, and the Byerly Turk, together with around 35 mares.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thoroughbred   (4238 words)

  
 Welcome to the Kentucky Horse Park | Lexington, KY
The "foundation" stallions of the breed were: the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian.
The horse became known as the Byerly Turk and was the first of the three foundation stallions to come to Britain.
The Byerly Turk founded a line of Thoroughbreds, the most distinguished of which was Herod, who was foaled in 1758, and proved to be a very successful sire himself.
www.imh.org /museum/breeds.php?pageid=8&breed=94   (3299 words)

  
 Georgian Index - Racers
Captain Robert Byerley captured a fl horse from the Turks at the siege of Buda in Hungary in 1686.
The Byerly Turk, (The second e was dropped by accident by a printer.) as the horse came to be know, was the first of the three foundation stallions to come to Britain.
The Byerly Turk founded a line of Thoroughbreds with the foals from the small number of mares he was bred to.
www.georgianindex.net /Sport/Horse/racers.html   (1734 words)

  
 NationMaster - Statistics on Turkey. 2435 facts and figures, stats and information on Turkish economy, crime, people, ...
The reason why some Turks look Mediterranean or Middle Eastern is because of the intermarriages with Greeks and Armenians whom lived there prior to the invasion.
It was an unlucky time in history in around 600 AC that arabs offered the Turks protection against Chinese raids, in return for their convergence to islam.
The Turks accepted that, and some 800 years later dominated the whole Arab world mainly for their exceptional military skills.
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 Byerley Turk
As his portrait by Wootton shows, the Byerley Turk was a unmarked, dark brown horse with a decidedly Arabian appearance, despite his title as a "Turk".
Another Byerley Turk daughter known as "Dam of the Two True Blues" was designated founder of family #3.
Other mares sired by the Byerley Turk include the only daughter of the mare by Bustler, founder of family #8, and the only daughter of another mare by Bustler, founder of family #35.
www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/ByerleyTurk.html   (867 words)

  
 The Thoroughbred's Arabian Ancestors
That he was called a "Turk" arises from the fact he was obtained in Turkey.
These are all closely allied to Oriental blood, the first English stallion appearing to be Basto by the Byerly Turk, who died in 1723.
Thus through a stallion fight, premeditatedly planned by the ex-slave, Agba (driven almost to madness in his attempt to have the worth of Scham as a sire recognized), was the course of history of the English Thoroughbred changed.
www.wiwfarm.com /BHTbArabAnces.html   (1879 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Byerly Turk": Key Phrase page
In most histories of the breed, three founding fathers - the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arabian or Barb - are mentioned as the stallions to whom all present Thoroughbreds...
Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian, and Godolphin Barb were brought to England between 1689 and 1728.
Pony Breeds I I Shetland Pony Lipizzaners Turkmene Barb Arabian Byerly Turk* I Godolphin...
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 LadyQuest Farms - Where Home and Heart Reside
He was sired by Florizel by King Herod by Tartar by Partner by Jiggs by The Byerly Turk.
The Byerly Turk was an Arabian Stallion used in battle by an English Army Captain, Robert Byerly.
Byerly took his stallion to England where he became one of the three foundation sires of the modern Thoroughbred along with the Godolphin Arabian and the Darley Arabian.
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 Equiworld - Equestrian Information - Thoroughbred - horses and ponies on the internet
Wealthy landowners began breeding horses specifically to race; the native horses had endurance but little speed and the breed imported to improve the native horses was the Arabian.
He was owned by Captain Robert Byerly, who rode him into the Battle of Boyne in 1690.
The Darley was foaled in 1700 and stood at stud for 30 years in Yorkshire.
www.equiworld.net /uk/horsecare/Breeds/thoroughbred/index.htm   (479 words)

  
 Darcy's Yellow Turk, Darcy's White Turk and Helmsley Turk
Place's White Turk must have been foaled about 1670, as he would have to be old enough to be associated with Rowland Place, who died in 1676, and young enough to get foals in the 1690's when he was known as Darcy's WhiteTurk.
This is probably the stallion known as Curwen's Grey Turk and The Turk, sire of Flanderkin.
This stallion was, therefore, Fairfax's Morocco Barb until 1671, the Buckingham or Helmsley Turk from 1671 to 1685 and the Earl of Holderness's Turk sometime between 1682 and 1689.
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 * Turk - (Pferd): Definition
The Byerly Turk, geboren 1679 und 1689 nach England importiert, The Darley Arabian, geb.
Byerley Turk, Begründer der Herod-Linie; der 1683 von einem Holländer während der Belagerung Wiens erbeutet wurde und 1689 mit Captain Byerley, der den Hengst kaufte, nach England kam;...
Ein berühmter Achal-Tekkiner war Byerly Turk, er war Stammvater des Englischen Vollblutes und mit ihm begann der weltweite Erfolgszug der Rasse.
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 Byerly Turk - Karr.net   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There is debate over the origin of the Byerly Turk.
While this stallion is commonly thought to be an Arabian horse, there are other theories who claim the horse was an Akhal-Teke.
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 Ambiorix-Tourbillion Thoroughbred Breeders
Other opportunities to continue the N.American tradition of breeding superior runners representative of the Byerly Turk bloodline resides with a handful of 'active' TOURBILLION stallions not descended from AMBIORIX.
As a result there has been as recently as the late '80s and early '90s a number of successful racing stallions of the Byerly Turk sireline actively at stud in Brazil, Venzeula and Argentina, other S.American studs as well.
More research will no doubt cause this source of Byerly Turk sires to be updated and expanded from this paltry mention.
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 www.betscorner.com - The Turk
His name is assuredly recorded in the General Stud Book as the Byerly Turk, however, the correct spelling is Byerley Turk, after the name of his owner.
Ireland, who state that the Byerley Turk merrily raced at Downpatrick on his way to the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
It is quite probable that the Byerley Turk came from the same seige, as his owner was at that date a free lance as
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Byerly Turk
The story goes that it was captured by a Captain Byerly at the Battle of Buda and saw further military service in the Battle of the Boyne and served as Byerley's war horse when he was dispatched to Ireland in 1689 during King William's War before being brought back to stud inEngland.
There is debate over the breed of the Byerly Turk.
The most famous of his racing offspring was Bastro but he aso breed the Byerley Turk mare, founder of Thorougbreed family 1 and the "Dam of the Two True Blues" the founder of family 3.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Byerly_Turk   (273 words)

  
 This thoroughbred question in The AnswerBank: Animals & Nature
Around the turn of the 17th century 3 stallions were brought to England, from the middle east, to breed with native mares to produce horses capable of being outstanding racers.
Those 3 stallions were Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian and Godo;phin Arabian, imported by their respective owners Captain Robert Byerly, Thomas Darley and Lord Godolphin.
These were; from Byerly Turk - Herod; from Darley Arabian - Eclipse; and from Godolphin - Matchem.
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 Introduction to Thoroughbreds
Ancestry of all Thoroughbreds today can be traced through the male line to one or more of these three stallions--the Godolphin Barb, the Darley Arabian or the Byerly Turk.
The Byerly Turk (1680-1696) (captured from the Turks in Hungary), was brought to England by Colonel Robert Byerley.
Due to a printer's error, the horse's name was registered in the General Stud Book without the final "e".
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 StraightEgyptians.com Forum -> Iridescent - Metallic Coat Colours In Arabians Straight Egyptians - The Egyptian Arabian ...
To be extra evil they also say that the Byerly Turk, one of the arabian founding fathers of the thoroughbted, might ahve been An Akhal-Teke too.
In fact, some researchers now believe that the Byerly Turk and Darly Arabian that were the foundation of thoroughbreds were more likely Akhal-Tekes.
Now, the Byerly Turk was of no specified blood or breeding.
www.straightegyptians.com /forum2/index.php?s=&showtopic=7051&mode=linear&view=findpost&p=67880   (961 words)

  
 Thoroughbred
The term Thoroughbred describes a breed of horse whose ancestry traces back to three foundation sires -- the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerly Turk.
The result was an animal that could carry weight with sustained speed over extended distances, qualities which brought a new dimension to the burgeoning, aristocratically supported, sport of horse racing.
At the siege of Buda, Captain Byerley captured a horse from the Turks which would carry his name into history.
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 World Almanac for Kids
The resultant new breeds include saddle and harness horses especially adapted for racing gaits, hunters adapted for endurance, carriage horses, draft horses for pulling heavy loads, and cow ponies and polo ponies (small, fast horses that can be trained to the complicated maneuvers of roping and the game of polo).
The Arabian breed is often divided into three sub-breeds: Turks from European Turkey and Asia Minor, Arabians from the regions between Damascus and the Euphrates River, and Barbs from the Barbary states of northern Africa.
The Thoroughbred was developed in the early 18th century from offspring of three foundation sires—the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Barb—and native English mares.
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 CMK Arabian Horses: The Thoroughbred's Arabian Ancestors
King Charles II sent abroad an official to procure a number of foreign horses and mares for breeding.
Weatherby gives in the second part of his first stud book pedigrees of more than two hundred horses and mares of note between 1711 and 1759.
After about 1750 no Oriental blood, Arab, Barb or Turk, seems to have been used with success, although stakes for imported Arabians were run at Newmarket.
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 thoroughbred   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The pedigree of every modern Thoroughbred can be traced back to one of four lines founded by these horses.
At the seige of Buda, Captain Byerley captured a horse from the Turks which would carry his name into history.
The horse distinguished himself as a sire although he was not bred to many mares.
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 Byerly - Qwika
Byerly Turk The Byerly Turk was one of three horses which...
that it was captured by a Captain Byerly at the Battle of Buda and saw...
recognized as deriving from three stallions, the Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian and the Goldolphin Barb.
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 Haber Ekspres
Jeremy James'in "Byerly Turk (Byerly Türkü) adlı kitabından iki tane sipariş ettim.
Türk atının değerini, akıllılığını, dayanıklılığını, hızını bilen; inatçılığını, seyis ve binicisinin dışında kimseyi yaklaştırmamasını saygıyla karşılayan Yüzbaşı Robert Byerly, atın yanında seyisini de alarak İngiltere'ye dönmüş.
Byerly Türkü, İngiltere'nin en değerli üç atından biri sayılmaktadır.
www.haberekspres.com.tr /2006/08/07/yazi.php?id=65   (577 words)

  
 The Glory of the Thoroughbred
With the importation of three eastern horses, the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian, the racing horses of the time would be improved forever, not for speed but for consistency in breeding.
Although the three eastern stallions have been named as the most important ancestors of the Thoroughbred breed, there are four principal bloodlines which have founded the majority of the top racing horses in the world.
The first of the four principle bloodlines belongs to the eastern stallion, the Byerly Turk.
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 The Native Pony, Mountain & Moorland Pony Enthusiasts Community - Hamlet's House Equestrian
The foundation sires were three Arab stallions, named Byerly Turk, Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arabian.
The first studbook including these bloodlines was published in 1791; it is said that Captain Byerley brought Byerley Turk back from a campaign in the East.
Byerley Turk was Captain Robert Byerle's charger, and had been ridden by him in the Irish wars of 1689.
www.hamletshouse.co.uk /breeds/thoroughbredhorse.htm   (462 words)

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