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this miniature, muscular, firmly knit, and active racer must 



be the model our polo-pony breeders are endeavouring 

 to breed up to. Making due allowance for the lack of 

 anatomical knowledge in the animal limner of those days, 

 this remarkable son of the Godolphin Barb must have pre- 

 sented the beau ideal of a racing galloway. Irrespective 

 of his great weight-carrying powers, marvellous staunchness, 

 and hardness of constitution, he was considered to be so 

 perfect a model that his last proprietor left him for a length 

 of time at Tattersall's for pubHc inspection. 



In running these galloways —for it is a misnomer to term 

 them ponies — it is found that blood alone can ensure their 

 success. Many of them are undersized thoroughbreds, and 

 as such are very hot and strongheaded. These blood-cobs 

 are in every way qualified to make perfect hacks, and in 

 addition are superlatively good hunters for boys. Those 

 not quite fast enough for racing, and not handy enough to 

 play polo well, are, as often as not, the best on the road, in 

 the park, or in the hunting-field. A smart racing galloway 

 or polo player commands a high and increasing figure. A 

 year ago, when the i6th Lancers were ordered on foreign 

 service, two hundred and seventy guineas were given for 

 one pony^ and some, the property of ofticers of the nth 

 Hussars, sold at public auction on the eve of the corps 

 sailing for South Africa, changed hands at a still longer 

 price. Fashion, without valid reason as usual, has decreed 

 that these beauties should be smartened up by having their 

 manes hogged. The vile disfigurement, in the case of a too 

 light or a ewe neck only accentuates the deformity. Though 

 quite as well able as my neighbours to maintain my seat in 

 the saddle without extraneous aid, I am free to confess that 

 not once or twice, but scores of times, has a grip on the 

 mane saved me from a fall. Under no circumstances should 



