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Alcock's Arabian

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Alcock's Arabian (foaled about 1707, died about 1733), also known as Pelham Grey Arabian and less certainly as Bloody Buttocks and Ancaster Turk, among other names, is the ancestor of all grey-coloured Thoroughbred horses,Lady Wentworth, The Swift Runner: racing speed through the ages (G. Allen & Unwin, 1957), p. 27: "All grey thoroughbreds are descended in direct (though not exclusively male) line from the Grey Alcock Arabian, also known as the Brownlow Turk, Honeywood Arabian and Akaster Turk, the grey colour persisting through some 26 generations..." as well as grey sport and riding horses descended from Thoroughbred lines. [1]

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Aimwell

Aimwell (1782 – after 1786) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Ambassador

An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Byerley Turk

The Byerley Turk (c. 1680 – c. 1706), also spelled Byerly Turk, was the earliest of three stallions that were the founders of the modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock (the other two are Godolphin Arabian and Darley Arabian).

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Crab (horse)

Crab also known as Old Crab and Mr.

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Crabbet Arabian Stud

The Crabbet Arabian Stud, also known as the Crabbet Park Stud, was a horse breeding farm established on 2 July 1878 when the first Arabian horses brought to England by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and Lady Anne Blunt arrived at Crabbet Park, their estate in Sussex.

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Darley Arabian

The Darley Arabian (foaled c. 1700) was one of three dominant foundation sires of modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock, whose arrival in England during the reign of Queen Anne was the event which "forms the great epoch from which the history of the Turf should be dated".

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Epsom Derby

The Derby Stakes, officially the Investec Derby, popularly known as the Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.

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General Stud Book

The General Stud Book is a breed registry for horses in Great Britain and Ireland.

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Godolphin Arabian

The Godolphin Arabian (–1753), also known as the Godolphin Barb, was an Arabian horse or Barb horse who was one of three stallions that founded the modern Thoroughbred (the others were the Darley Arabian and the Byerley Turk).

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Gray (horse)

Gray or grey is a coat color of horses characterized by progressive silvering of the colored hairs of the coat.

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Istanbul

Istanbul (or or; İstanbul), historically known as Constantinople and Byzantium, is the most populous city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historic center.

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Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth

Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth also known as Lady Wentworth (6 February 1873 – 8 August 1957) was a British peer, Arabian horse breeder and real tennis player.

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Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland

The title of champion, or leading, sire of racehorses in Great Britain and Ireland is awarded to the stallion whose offspring have won the most prize money in Britain and Ireland during the flat racing season.

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List of QI episodes

QI (short for Quite Interesting) is a BBC comedy panel game television show that began in 2003.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Panel show

A panel show or panel game is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates.

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QI

QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and features permanent panelist Alan Davies.

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Robert Sutton (diplomat)

Sir Robert Sutton (167113 August 1746) was an English diplomat and later a politician.

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Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet

Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (1692 – 26 September 1749) was a Welsh politician and prominent Jacobite.

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Stallion

A stallion is a male horse that has not been gelded (castrated).

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcock's_Arabian

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