172 SPECIAL POINTS OF VARIOUS CLASSES. 



The following are admirable types of English race- 

 horses : — 



Ormonde (Frontispiece), by Bend Or out of Lily 

 Agnes, was the best race-horse of the last century. In 

 training, he was a little higher at the withers than 

 long in the body ; and about as high at the croup as 

 at the withers. His legs, though long, were muscular, 

 and their bones strong, as we may perceive from the 

 appearance of his fore -arm and gaskin, and from the 

 shape of the limbs below the knees and hocks. He had 

 particularly straight-dropped hind legs. Although he was 

 in training when this photograph was taken, he shows 

 great depth of body in the centre of the back : a fact 

 which points to the unusual length of his back ribs, and 

 to the admirable shape of his chest for purposes of 

 breathing. It is evident that his roaring infirmity, 

 being a nervous disease of his larynx, had nothing to 

 say to his conformation. As his neck agrees in length 

 with his limbs, and as his withers run far back, he had 

 a very long " rein." His neck, though muscular, was 

 light for a four-year-old entire. He was coarse about the 

 throat, where the head and neck ioin. The horizontal 

 marks on his legs, on and near his fetlocks, were curls 

 in the hair, due to bandaging. His back view (Fig. 384) 

 shows that he was narrow behind as compared with a 

 middle-weight hunter (Fig. 385). His hocks were 

 particularly good. His tail was placed very high on 

 his croup. 



Fig. 16 shows St. Simon (by Galopin out of St. Angela) 

 slightly fore - shortened. Fig. 17 gives him in strict 

 profile ; but as it had to be copied from a photograph 

 which was not good enough to bear reproduction, its 

 details have not come out well. They were both 

 done in 1884, when St. Simon was a three-year-old, 

 and when he was in training. Owing to the death 

 of his first owner, Prince Batthyany, his nominations 

 for the great three-year-old events were rendered void. 



