horses in the Colony, by 1821, there were more than four thousand. With his prize sire, Wentworth bred carriage horses and racehorses, Hector was the great foundation sire of Australian Cavalry horses known as Walers, for New South Wales. The first exports of Walers, as light cavalry horses, began in 1816. In the First World War around one hundred and sixty thousand Walers were sent overseas, between 1861 and 1931 almost half a million were exported. Death In the winter of 1827, a severe strain of influenza swept through the Colony. On Saturday, 7 July 1827, a cold winter morning, D’Arcy Wentworth died of pneumonia at his farm, Home Bush. On Monday 9 July, despite dreadful weather and the risk of influenza, a funeral procession more than a mile long, with forty carriages and more than fifty men on horseback, accompanied his hearse on its journey to Parramatta. D’Arcy Wentworth was buried there, in St John’s cemetery. The inscription on his tomb reads: "an honest man, the noblest work of God". He left two mature sons, William Charles and D’Arcy, children of Catherine Crowley, and seven children with Mary Ann Lawes, three sons and four daughters; their fourth son was born in 1828. Wentworth named her in his will as: "my dear friend Ann Lawes the mother of seven of my children". After his funeral the mourners gathered at Hannah Walker’s Red Cow Inn at Parramatta, to salute his life and drink a toast to his memory. The Monitor described D’Arcy Wentworth as "a lover of liberty on whom the people could rely, the natural protector of the people’s rights. He was a lover of freedom; a constant and steady friend to the people; a kind and liberal master; a just and humane magistrate; a steady friend". The Australian noted his reputation as a doctor and as a magistrate: "As a medical practitioner, Mr Wentworth was distinguished for his tenderness with which he treated his patients of every degree, and that class of unfortunate persons whom the charge of General Hospital placed so extensively under his care. He was peculiarly skilful in treating the diseases of children… As an able, upright and impartial Magistrate, Mr Wentworth’s merits were well remembered by all classes of the community". Sydney Gazette acknowledged Wentworth had "studiously devoted the best part of his eventful life to the service of its public, he was loyal from