THE RACE-HORSE. 



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Despite the fact that he had never met a great race- 

 horse, he won ah his contests with such consummate 

 ease, that I am inchned to think that as a two-year-old, 

 towards the "back end" of the season (1883) and for 

 the first half of his three-year-old career— in other words 

 as long as he kept sound— he was the fastest horse, with, 



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[Clarence Hailey, Newmarket. 

 Fig. 418. — Lord Rosebery's Ladas, John Watts up. 



perhaps, the exception of Ormonde, that ever lived. St. 

 Simon's height at the withers, and over the croup, is 

 considerably more than his length of body. Also, his 

 shoulders are long and extremely oblique. I remember 

 having been greatly struck by the marvellous beauty 

 of his shoulders, and by the shortness of his back and 

 loins, when I saw him for the first time, when he was 

 sold as a two-year-old in 1883, after the death of his 



