| Owner: 1) Governor of Arabia Felix [Yemen] 2) Count Alexei Orlov 3) Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke 4) Algernon Percy, 1st Earl Beverley
Also known as Pembroke's Arabian and Percy's Arabian
Given to Count Alexei Orloi, commander-in-chief of the fleet sent by Russia against the Turks, by the governor of Arabia Felix. Orlov subsequently presented the horse to the son of Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, while he was on his Grand Tour of Europe, and passed into his father, the Earl's, ownership, for whom he stood at stud, and later for Algernon Percy, 1st Earl Beverley
Sire of the dam of Bennington (1795 Second Class of the Oatlands Stakes, 1797 First Class of the July Oatlands Stakes, First Class of the October Oatlands Stakes);
of the grandam of Eryx, sire of the dam of Lanterne (1844 Prix du Jockey Club, Prix de Diane) and Tomate (1846 Prix du Cadran); of the 3rd dam of Le Sarrazin (1869 Prix du Cadran); of the 4th dam of Leon (1881 Prix Lupin) and of Flageolet (1873 Jockey Club Cup, Goodwood Cup, 2nd Prix du Jockey Club, Grand Prix de Paris, Ascot Gold Cup)
He died in 1785
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