John Wootton Painting The Byerley Turk and Elementary's Thoroughbreds

Summary: The John Wootton painting The Byerley Turk furnishes a standard against which alleged Thoroughbreds falter in Elementary's The Marchioness Nov. 7, 2013.

The Byerley Turk, earliest of three Foundation Thoroughbred Stallions, as depicted by John Wootton (ca. 1682-Nov. 13, 1764), English painter of sporting subjects: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The John Wootton painting The Byerley Turk articulated standard aspects and behavior of Thoroughbred racehorses, whose inherited appearance ambushes attempted identity theft in the Elementary series episode The Marchioness Nov. 7, 2013.

Director Sanaa Hamri and writers Robert Doherty, Christopher Hollier and Craig Sweeny bring a colt, a racehorse and a studhorse into the second season's seventh episode. That Robles cartel head Joaquin Aguilar concludes a third-party sale of a newborn for Mariotti Farms Stable and Training Facility confounds Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). That Mycroft Holmes's (Rhys Ifans) ex-fiancée Nigella Mason's (Olivia d'Abo) boyfriend Dalton Ladd dies defending stabled studhorse Silver Blaze in Ulster County, New York, disconcerts Sherlock.

That Robles cartel-hired assassin El Mecanico ("The mechanic," Andrew Samonsky) expects to eliminate Nigella, ex-wife of Robert Suffolk, Marquess of Loudwater, elucidates means, motives and opportunities.

Divorce after a 22-month marriage furnishes Nigella with the "champion stallion" Silver Blaze and the noble title Marchioness, between the lower-ranking countess and the higher-ranking duchess.

Ten weeks after divorce settlements and property transfers get finalized, Nigella gives "a few hundred quid" for Silver Blaze's non-racing brother "who never amounted to much." That the "markings are almost identical" for the equine siblings heads Nigella toward blood and hair samples from Silver Blaze and hair dye for his brother. Nigella intends to insure her financial security by initiating the retired racehorse Silver Blaze's second lucrative career as a studhorse at £100,000 ($160,800) per partnered mare.

Bleeding lungs from over-exercise, fractures from small, thin-soled, thin-walled hooves and failure from small hearts jeopardize the Thoroughbred's (Equus ferus caballus, "Equine wild horse") 20-year lifespan.

Admirers and owners of, and specialists on, Thoroughbreds know the Byerley Turk as the earliest of the three stallion founders of modern-day Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock.

Online images of the John Wootton painting The Byerley Turk (1680?-1706?) lets enthusiasts and experts look at the Arabian racehorse whose likeness livens a private collection. The 18th-century painting manifests a Saluki (Arabian Greyhound) dog and a rein-holding, turbaned trainer before two classical stone landscape architectural examples near grasses, shrubs and trees. Henry Somerset-Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort (March 23, 1707-Feb. 26, 1745), nudged his Warwickshire-born page from Snitterfield (1682?-Nov. 13, 1764) into landscape lessons in Rome, Italy.

The John Wootton painting The Byerley Turk optimized the Rome-born Frenchman Gaspard Dughet's (June 15, 1615-May 27, 1675) classicizing landscapes that overtook Dutch and Flemish styles.

Captured stallions from the Battles of Vienna, Austria, Sep. 12, 1683, or Buda, Hungary, Aug. 18-Sep. 9, 1686, perhaps provided Robert Byerley (1660-1714) with his Thoroughbred.

The General Stud Book of Great Britain's and Ireland's breed-registered horses, 1791-, queued Captain Byerley's Thoroughbred charger into King William's War, Sep. 27, 1688-Oct. 30, 1697. His Thoroughbred's speed rescued Captain Byerley, retired as Colonel to Midridge Grange and then Goldsborough Hall, at the Battle of the Boyne, Ireland, July 1, 1690. The high-tailed, high-withered, lean-bodied, long-legged, long-necked, short-backed Arabian with chiseled head and developed hindquarters stood as studhorse at Midridge and, 1697-1706, Goldsborough, near Knaresborough, northern Yorkshire.

The John Wootton painting The Byerley Turk tributes an alert, bright-eyed, disciplined, shining black-brown Arabian whereas Elementary's Nutmeg and Silver Blaze's brother tender white-whorled chestnut brown.

CBS Elementary's The Marchioness (season 2 episode 7) centers on thoroughbred horses while, behind the scenes, a spotted pony rules: Bob Goodman @bobgoodman, via Twitter Nov. 8, 2013

Acknowledgment

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

Image credits:

The Byerley Turk by John Wootton (ca. 1682-Nov. 13, 1764), English painter of sporting subjects: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byerly_Turk.jpg

CBS Elementary's The Marchioness (season 2 episode 7) centers on thoroughbred horses while, behind the scenes, a spotted pony rules: Bob Goodman @bobgoodman, via Twitter Nov. 8, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/b0bg00dman/status/398833855936737281

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