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The approximate year of birth for the Moonah Barb Mare may be
established from the task given to Richard Marshall, Stud Master to King
William III. "He was sent to Barbary by William III in 1699 in
quest of Eastern horses for the Royal Stud, and brought home nine
stallions and five mares " [Early Records:70]. The colour of the
Moonah Barb Mare is given in the pedigree of Bosphorus. "Bosphorus was
got by Old Babram, his Dam by the Hampton Court Old Childers,
her Dam by Old Leedes, her Grandam was the Old Bay Moonah Barb
Mare" [Heber 1767:220]. Her sire and
dam are identified as the Hampton Court Brown Barb and the Moonah
Mare respectively from evidence given in Prior and Pond. "RIB
was got by Old Crab His dam by Ld Darcy's Woodcock, his grand
dam by a Barb in that country, and she called the Moonah Mare,
was brought over in the same mannr [in utero] as The Royal
African, her brother, and were foaled with the King's stud at
Hampton Court" [Early Records:70]; and in the pedigree of Comet,
"his Grandam by Woodcock, which mare was the dam of Rib, and out
of the own sister to the Royal African, which was got by the
Brown Barb at Hampton Court, and out of the Moonah Mare" [Pond
1757:173].
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