110 



called Bartlet's Childers,) Almanzor, Whitelegs, Cupid, Brisk, Dseda- 

 lus, Skipjack, Manica, Aleppo, BuUyrock, Whistlejacket, Dart, &c. 

 This horse had not that variety of mares, which annually poured in 

 upon the Godolphin Arabian ; indeed he covered very few, excepting 

 those of Mr. Darley, his pj-oprietor ; but from those sprung the largest 

 and the speediest race-horses which were ever known. Flying Chil- 

 ders and Eclipse, the swiftest, beyond a doubt, of all quadrupeds, 

 were the son, and great grandson of this Arabian, from which 

 also, through Childers and Blaze, descended Sampson, the strongest 

 Horse that ever raced before or since his time, and entitled to equal 

 pre-eminence, if viewed as a hackney or hunter. Sam|)son was fifteen 

 hands and a half in height, and his admeasurement in the legs, as 

 taken by his proprietor, the lord Marquis of Rockingham, was as fol- 

 lows : 

 Dimensions of the fore-leg, from the hair of the hoof, to 



the middle of the fetlock joint - - - 4 inches. 



From the fetlock joint to the bend of the knee - 11 do. 



the bend of the knee to the elbow - - - 19 do. 



round his leg below the knee, narrowest part - 8 J do. 



round his hind leg, narrowest part - - 9 do. 



Lord Clement's Fircaway, by Squirrel, I thought, came as near to 

 the above, as any Horse upon the turf; but I had not the precaution 

 to measure his leg, although I handled it with admiration. These 

 examples, and indeed the size of the general run of covering stallions, 

 will serve to demonstrate, that race-horses are not those spider-legged 

 animals which they are supposed by superficial observers. 



The importation of heavy draught stock from the continent, has 

 never ceased for many centuries, and continues occasionally, with the 

 variation, that of late, scarcely any but mares, and some few geldings, 

 are imported, and those chiefly from Flanders. Very few foreign 

 coach-horses are now used in England ; but a considerable number of 

 German cavalry Horses have been seen in the country during the late 

 and present war. Indeed, his Majesty has always kept a number of 

 Hanoverian Horses ; and for the parade, the continental Florse, as 



formerly, 

 formerly, 



