John Wootton Painting The Darley Arabian and Elementary's Studhorse

Summary: The John Wootton painting The Darley Arabian honors the ancestor of famous Thoroughbreds, unlike The Marchioness's studhorse in Elementary Nov. 7, 2013.

The Darley Arabian, one of modern-day's 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 Darley Arabian approaches in two aspects the physical appearance of the three alleged Thoroughbreds in the Columbia Broadcasting System's Elementary series episode The Marchioness Nov. 7, 2013.

Director Sanaa Hamri and writers Robert Doherty, Christopher Hollier and Craig Sweeny broach Thoroughbred compromised health, genetic testing and selective breeding in Season Two's seventh episode. Genetic testing's blood and hair samples and selective breeding's heart failure from an abnormally small heart and inherited whorls complicate the procedural drama's 31st episode overall. The blood and hair samples derive from a Thoroughbred that died of heart failure whereas the inherited whorls display different patterns above, versus between, the eyes.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) envisions an evil endeavor behind episodic genetic testing and the inherited white whorls of a colt, a racehorse and a studhorse.

Nigella Mason (Olivia d'Abo), ex-fiancée of Mycroft Holmes (Rhys Ifans) and ex-wife of Robert Suffolk, Marquis of Loudwater, finds that hair dye fights against financial failure.

Nigella's racehorse Silver Blaze got white whorls between the eyes whereas his non-racing brother by another mare gives his colt Nutmeg inherited whorls above the eyes. Silver Blaze had heart failure 10 weeks after Nigella's divorce decree and settlement papers had finalized so hair dye heads a non-racer into a studhorse career. Nutmeg's mother, Twice for No, includes whorled "small patches of hair which grow in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat" between the eyes.

The John Wootton painting The Darley Arabian juggles white-marked head and warm brown body, colors of Nutmeg, Silver Blaze and his brother and Twice for No.

Thoroughbred breeding and racing enthusiasts and experts know that the Darley Arabian kept a white stripe from just below the crest to just below the nostrils.

Thomas Darley's (May 19, 1664-March 9, 1704) letter Dec. 21, 1703, to his brother Henry, lauded Syrian Sheikh Mirza's Anazah Arabian stallion Ras el Fedowi ("Headstrong"). It mentioned that "His colour is bay, and his near fore-foot before, with his hind-feet, has white upon them. He has a blaze down his face." It noted the four-year-old's (March-April 1700-1730) representing "the most esteemed race among the Arabs, both by sire and dam, and the name is called Mannicka [Muniqui]."

John Nost Sartorius's (1755-1828) painting, the John Wootton painting The Darley Arabian and a Yorkshire artist's 9.3- by 7-foot (2.84- by 2.13-meter) painting offered description-true portraits.

Darley purchased the colt "about a year and a half ago, with a design to send him to my father [Richard] at the very first opportunity."

The Honorable Reverend Henry Brydges, son of Lord Chandos, and William Wakelin, Captain of the Ipswich, queued up as the lean-bodied, long-legged Thoroughbred's companion and transport. The Darley letter required the high-tailed, high-withered, long-necked, small-headed colt's relay to John Darley or to maternal cousin Charles Waite for Aldby Park, Darley family seat. The Darley Arabian survived 26 years after his Levant Company merchant purchaser from Buttercrambe village, East Yorkshire, perished from chest injuries from falling off a horse.

The John Wootton painting The Darley Arabian toasted a Thoroughbred that, unlike Elementary's tragic Silver Blaze, transmitted y chromosomes to 95 percent of 21st-century Thoroughbred racehorses.

Nutmeg's whorls clue Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) to fake racehorse descent schemes orchestrated by Nigella Mason (Olivia d'Abo) in 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 Darley Arabian, one of modern-day's three Foundation Thoroughbred Stallions, as depicted by John Wootton (ca. 1682-Nov. 13, 1764), English painter of sporting subjects: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Darley_Arabian.jpg

Nutmeg's whorls clue Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) to fake racehorse descent schemes orchestrated by Nigella Mason (Olivia d'Abo) in CBS Elementary's The Marchioness (season 2 episode 7): Elementary Writers @ELEMENTARYStaff, via Twitter Nov. 7, 2013, @ https://twitter.com/ELEMENTARYStaff/status/398655424116707329

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