George Stubbs Painting The Godolphin Arabian and Elementary's Nutmeg

Summary: The George Stubbs painting The Godolphin Arabian presents one of the trio that proves if Elementary's The Marchioness possesses Thoroughbreds Nov. 7, 2013.

The Godolphin Arabian, with feline friend, Grimalkin the Stable Cat, as depicted by George Stubbs (Aug. 25, 1724- July 10, 1806), English sporting painter, especially of horses: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The George Stubbs painting The Godolphin Arabian avoids arguments that Nutmeg and Silver Blaze's brother advance in Elementary series episode The Marchioness Nov. 7, 2013, about Thoroughbred racehorse and studhorse ancestral bloodlines.

Director Sanaa Hamri and writers Robert Doherty, Christopher Hollier and Craig Sweeny never bring the Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian or Godolphin Arabian into the 31st episode. The second season's seventh episode considers criminal concealment of Thoroughbred Silver Blaze's death from heart failure and identity theft for his brother by a different mare. The procedural drama depicts the Thoroughbred colt Nutmeg whose inherited whorls above, not between, the eyes designate as parents Silver Blaze's brother and Twice for No.

The Godolphin Arabian endured Nutmeg-like experiences through ending up in stables unexpected before birth even though a royal gift exchange, not questionable parentage, encouraged the exile.

The Robles cartel-seeded Mariotti Farms Stable and Training Facility find third-party ownership for the colt Nutmeg whose inherited white whorls favor Silver Blaze's brother as father.

The Godolphin Arabian never got downgraded like Nutmeg even though the Thoroughbred studhorse generated historical controversy over ancestral bloodlines as an Arabian, Barb or Turkoman descendant. He had the dished profile and the high-carried tail of an Arabian Thoroughbred and the Barb nomenclature only through foaling in 1724 on Tunisia's Barbary Coast. Al-Husayn I ibn Ali (1675?-May 13, 1740), first Husainid Bey of Tunis after the Muradid dynasty, included the subsequent Godolphin Arabian in his stables until 1730.

The Godolphin journeyed, perhaps by Aleppo, Syria, to the stables of Louis XV (Feb. 15, 1710-May 10, 1774), Bourbon King of France since Sep. 1, 1715.

France's Bien-Aimé ("Well-Beloved") kept him until his cousin, Duke of Lorraine and subsequent Holy Roman Emperor Francis I (Dec. 8, 1708-Aug. 18, 1765), knew better deals.

Edward Coke (1701?-August 1733) led the Godolphin Arabian northward across the English Channel to Derbyshire, central England, as Longford Hall's studhorse, until a bequeathed location southeastwards. Roger Williams, heir to Coke horses and, 1704?-1747, proprietor of Williams's coffee house, 86 St. James's Street, London, maintained the Godolphin until the Thoroughbred's last move. Francis Godolphin, second Earl of Godolphin (Sep. 3, 1678-Jan. 17, 1756), nestled his namesake into Babraham village, south Cambridgeshire, as Thoroughbred studhorse until Dec. 25, 1753.

The George Stubbs painting "The Godolphin Arabian observed a bay-bodied, deep-shouldered, high-crested, high-withered, lean-bodied, long-necked, long-tailed, short-backed, small-headed, small-legged Thoroughbred Araban with the hind heels white-marked.

John Wootton (1682?-Nov. 13, 1764), horse portrait pioneer, painted The Godolphin Arabian even though self-taught George Stubbs's (Aug. 25, 1724-July 10, 1806) portrayal proved more popular.

James Christie Whyte, author of History of the British Turf in 1840, queued up original portraits in Houghton Hall, Norfolk, southeastern England, and the Godolphin library. The latter's portrayal represented Grimalkin, "and such was the regard existing between them, that the cat really pined to death for the loss of the horse." A plaque still shows the space that served as the Godolphin Arabian's sepulcher under the earl's stable gateway at Wandlebury Ring, Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire.

The George Stubbs painting The Godolphin Arabian teams with the John Wootton paintings The Byerley Turk and The Darley Arabian to tribute Elementary English Thoroughbreds' ancestors.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Milller), behind the scenes of CBS Elementary's The Marchioness (season 2 episode 7): Elementary Writers @ELEMENTARYStaff, via Twitter Nov. 7, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

The Godolphin Arabian, with feline friend, Grimalkin the Stable Cat, as depicted by George Stubbs (Aug. 25, 1724- July 10, 1806), English sporting painter, especially of horses: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Godolphin_Arabian.jpg

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Milller), behind the scenes of CBS Elementary's The Marchioness (season 2 episode 7): Elementary Writers @ELEMENTARYStaff, via Twitter Nov. 7, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/ELEMENTARYStaff/status/398663538689855489

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