Paget Arabian gr.c. c1697, Paget Turk, Great Arabian, probably Rutland's Grey Arabian or Turk.

The Turf Register notes that the Duke of Rutland had acquired the Duke of Newcastle's Paget Turk. "Miss Belvoire (dam of Flece'em) was bred by the Duke of Rutland, and was frequently called the Cabbage-arsed Mare.- She was got by Grey Grantham, (son of the Brownlow Turk); her dam by his Grace's Paget Turk" [Pick, i, 48]. Grey Grantham was also owned by the Duke of Rutland.

(Probably a bay, as he only sired greys from grey mares, and when bred to chestnut mares his offspring were sometimes bay).

Pagett Arabian had to move from Welbeck to Leicestershire in 1711. Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire.

William Paget (1637-1713), 6th Baron Pagett.
Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st Earl of Oxford.
John Holles (1662-1711), 1st Duke of Newcastle. Owner of the Newcastle Turk and Pagett Arabian.
John Manner (1638-1711), 1st Duke of Rutland, owner Rutland's Blacklegs.
John Manners (-1721), 2nd Duke of Rutland, breeder of Bonny Black, of Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire.

Creeper gr.f. 1716 by Darcy's Woodcock - Mare, by Rutland's Grey Arabian - Kitt Darcy's Royal Mare [Blunderbush Royall], by Blunderbuss - Mare, by ? - Gray Royall, by the White Turk. Creeper was purchased from James Darcy the younger of Sedbury Park, Yorkshire, by Cuthbert Routh of Snape Hall, Bedale, Yorkshire. [Early Records, 26].

Prior says: "Lord Oxford also imported two Arabian horses from Turkey for his stud at Welbeck in 1711. The Pagett Arabian, extensively used at Welbeck, was sent by (William, sixth) Lord Pagett to the Duke of Newcastle in April, 1703, and as was often the case with these early importations is called a Turk in books of reference, but was duly entered as an Arabian at the Welbeck Stud." [Royal Studs, 81]

Paget (or Pigot) Turk

Earlier editions of Volume 1 of the General Stud Book state that Miss Belvoir's grandsire was the Paget Turk. "Miss Belvoir, by Grantham - Paget Turk - Betty Percival, by Leedes's Arabian" [Intro, 10]. "Miss Belvoir, bred by the Duke of Rutland, got by Grey Grantham - Paget Turk - Betty Percival, by Leedes's Arabian" [GSB, i, Ed. 3, 118].

However, by 1891, the General Stud Book had revised its opinion to say: "Miss Belvoir, bred by the Duke of Rutland, got by Grey Grantham - Paget (or Pigot) Turk - Betty Percival, by Leedes's Arabian" [GSB, i, Ed. 5, 129]

The single offspring credited to Paget Turk is the unnamed dam of Miss Belvoir (gr.f. c172-), who is shown having produce from 1730 to 1735. [GSB, i, Ed. 5, 129]

Pigot Turk is credited [GSB, 5, 64] as the sire of Egerton Nanny (gr.f. 1724) and [GSB, 5, 156] as the sire of Pigot-Turk Mare, "bred by Sir R. Mostyn, got by his Bay Barb (afterwards called the Pigot Turk)". Pigot-Turk Mare is shown to have offspring from 1723 to 1728.

Seemingly the correct name for Miss Belvoir's ancestor should be Pagett Arabian. While it is possible that Pagett Arabian was the same horse as Mostyn's Bay Barb [Pigot Turk] the only evidence, not provided until 1891, remains unsupported.

Piggott Arabian

[Intro, preface] makes a point: "It may, however, not be wholly useless to observe, that the Arabians of a later day have almost constantly varied their titles with their owners: the Barrington Arabian being afterwards stiled Gibson's - the Northumberland Brown Arabian, Leedes's - the Compton Barb, the Sedley Arabian - the Khalan Maga, Lord Ossory's - the Bolingbroke Bay Arabian, (who won the Arabian Plate) Lord Ferrers' - and the Bolingbroke Grey Arabian, being known as both the Pigott and Coombe Arabian."

"The Coomb Arabian (sometimes called the Pigot Arabian, and sometimes the Bolingbroke Grey Arabian) was sire of Methodist, the dam of Crop, &c.&c." [GSB, i, Ed. 3, 445 and i, Ed. 5, 393].

Coombe Arabian [GSB, 3, 21 and 5, 39] is recorded as the sire of Methodist (gr.c. 1768), and [GSB, 3, 250 and 5, 244] as sire of Coombe-Arabian Mare "bred by Mr. Vernon, in 1768". Coombe-Arabian Mare is shown with offspring from 1772 to 1793.