| Owner: 1) Gervase Markham 2) King James I
Sold on 20 December 1616 for £154 to King James I by Gervase Markham. In a 1658 book William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle describes him as a "Little Horse and no Rarity for shape, for I have seen Many English Horses far Finer". In terms of racing, when "trained up for a Course, when he came to Run, every Horse Beat him". A son of the Markham Arabian, Frissell, is apparently a stallion at the Tutbury Royal Stud in 1649.
One of the first horses in the G.S.B. The Markham Arabian was purchased by James I to cover Royal Mares. At the time he was said to be the first Arabian horse to be seen in England. Like the other Arabians that were raced against the racing stock that existed in England at the time, he was not a successful race horse.
Carol Clegg
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