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bone of the leg was singularly broad (p. 314). He showed 

 great bone below the knee as well as below the hocks. 

 Allowing for the scars of honourable warfare, his fore 

 legs may be said to have been of the type shown in 



Fig. 358. 



Manifesto (Fig. 431), who won the Grand National in 

 1897, carrying list. 3lbs., and in 1899 with I2st. ylhs. up, 

 is an ideal type of the thorough-bred steeplechase horse. 

 He would certainly have accomplished still greater feats, 

 if he had continued sound. Ambush II. (Fig. 432\ 

 another Grand National winner, does not show such good 

 ''quality" as the son of Man of War and Vse Victis, 

 but his staying conformation (pp. 232 to 236) cannot be 

 surpassed. 



As a rule, in " The Provinces," especially where the 

 country is cramped and there is a good deal of plough, 

 as in Cheshire, for instance, the hunters are up to more 

 weight and are more cobby than in Leicestershire. Fig. 

 322 shows a fine type, as far as conformation goes, of a 

 Cheshire hunter, who, though strong and thick-set, had a 

 sufficiency of speed. For a horse of his build, he had 

 comparatively light shoulders, as we may infer from a 

 front view of his fore-hand (Fig. 328), in that there was 

 no undue width between his fore legs. The horse por- 

 trayed in Fig. 435, was a good heavy-weight hunter. Un- 

 fortunately, his fore legs are a good deal ''mixed up" in 

 his photograph. 



Love of gambhng is, no doubt, the chief cause why, 

 among animals of equally high merit in their own respec- 

 tive spheres of life, race-horses and chasers are more 

 valuable from a monetary point of view than hunters ; 

 for were it otherwise, no sane man would spend more 

 money in the purchase of a horse to carry another man, 

 than in that of an animal for his own riding. 



The Match Trotter and Pacer. — As the best 

 specimens of these classes of horses are to be found in 



