Under this title Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfiq explains that the “English thoroughbred” is a mixture of Arabic and English, and there were huge horses in England that were ridden by armored knights in the Middle Ages, and the horses also wore zebrafish during the wars, and it is said that the first Arab horse was brought to England. During the reign of Henry the First in 1121 AD, Alexander the First, King of Scotland, gave an Arabian horse to St. Andrew’s Church.
In the time of the Crusades, Richard, nicknamed the Lion’s Heart, invoked horses from the island of Cyprus, and a number of kings later recalled many horses from France, the plains of Lombardy and Spain, and this duality was credited with the lightness of the English horse and the diminution of its size.
The value of the Arabian horses was magnified until James I – during whose reign the fame of the Arabian horse appeared – bought a well-known Arab horse named Marham “Markham” for five hundred pounds, which is a great price for that time.
Soon, he became tired of that highly valued horse, influenced by his friend, the Duke, “Ofniu Castle”, and then bought from Mr. “Place Race” the guard of the stables of Oliver Karmoul, the famous horse named Hoyt Turk or the white Turkish, and on his track came the horse “Hamsley Turk” which was invoked by Villier 1st Duke of Buckingham. However, all of these horses are not mentioned as the Darlie Arabian horse, the source of the English horse, which was bought by Mr. Darley’s brother from Aleppo.
Twenty years later, Lord John Wolfen bought a horse, so they thought it was Arab, and most likely it was of North African Berber origin. From these two horses branched the English Thoroughbred that exists today.
In sum, the efforts that have been made in England since that time to improve the Thoroughbred type have culminated in impressive success, as they graduated with the huge heavy horse until they produced from it the model of high speed and amazing durability and endurance characteristics.
