The Oysterfoot Arabian appears in the 5th edition of the General Stud Book of 1891 [GSB 1:391] in the list of "Arabians, Barbs, & Turks" that form the fourth section of this edition. No other information is provided, although his chronological position in this list precedes that of the Darley Arabian (b c 1700). In the "Additional Index to the Mares, arranged under their sires" he is not recorded as the sire of any offspring.

His unusual name may have reflected the nature of his feet. According to a contemporaneous horse management book "oysterfooted" was then understood to mean a broad, flat hoof [The Experienc'd Farrier: 1720].

The General Stud Book speculates that the Oysterfoot Arabian was the sire of Miss Hip: the Duke of Ancaster's Merlin Mare "produced 1722 b f Miss Hip, by Oysterfoot (probably the Arabian so called)" [GSB 1:7]. Mr Prior appears to agree in that he has added "[Arabian]" after the Oysterfoot who is entered as the sire of Miss Hip in the stud records of the 2nd Duke of Ancaster [Early Records:81]. However, an advertisement in the Ipswich Journal notes that there was an Oysterfoot who was a "Son of the famous Merlin belonging to the late Duke of Ancaster, and out of a Leister Mare that was Sister to his Grace's Black Legs, who broke his Leg when running against Fox at Lowes" [Saturday, April 11, 1747]. The Ancaster Merlin (ch c 1700 Pulleine's Chesnut Arabian) was bred by Robert Bertie (1660-1722/3), 1st Duke of Ancaster, of Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire. This latter Oysterfoot is perhaps a more likely candidate for the sire of Miss Hip. He also got the dam of Mr Garthside's Fearnought (ch c 1731c Doctor) who won a fifty at Norwich in 1738.

The only other Oysterfoot Mare mentioned in the General Stud Book is the dam of Fair Helen (b f 1729c Williams's Squirrel), the taproot mare of Family 10 [GSB 1:10]. There is as yet no evidence that the sire of this Oysterfoot Mare was the Oysterfoot Arabian rather than one of the other stallions named Oysterfoot.

One of the earliest horses named Oysterfoot (c 1700c) belonged to either or both of the 1st and 2nd Dukes of Rutland, of Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire, and was sired by the Lister Turk. It is possible that this horse was a native British arabian and the stallion known as the Oysterfoot Arabian. He was advertised in the Leedes Mercury as the sire of yet another Oysterfoot (bbr c 1725c), belonging to John Hitchen, then Ellis Nutter, who covered in Yorkshire as late as 1750 [March 29, 1743; April 3, 1744; April 3, 1750]. The possibility exists that he was the sire of Fair Helen's dam.

Other horses named Oysterfoot include (1) Mr Frampton's Oysterfoot who ran in 1720 and 1721, (2) Mr Gipp's Oysterfoot who ran in 1724, (3) Sir William Wyndham's Oysterfoot who ran in 1725 and (4) Oysterfoot, brother to Mr Croft's Old Makeless Mare, the Duke of Devonshire's Scar (b c 1705 Makeless) and Little John.