Alcock's Arabian

Alcock's Arabian
Alcock's Arabian
	Alcock's Arabian
Breed	Thoroughbred
Sire	Curwen's Bay Barb
Dam	Old Wen Mare (Sister to Clumsey)
Damsire	Hautboy
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	c. 1700
Country	Great Britain
Colour	Grey
Breeder	Sir J. Parsons
Owner	Mr Alcock; Mr Charles Pelham; Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
Awards
	Champion sire in Great Britain and Ireland (1728)

Alcock's Arabian (foaled about 1700, 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,^[1] as well as grey sport and riding horses descended from Thoroughbred lines.

^ 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..."

[wentworth-1] 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..."

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