THE ENGLISH EACE HORSE. 75 



from his right side, in his rough, paddock condition, with his 

 right hind foot a little advanced, and his head low and without 

 any animation or excitement. The standpoint of the artist is a 

 little forward of the shoulders, and he must have been a tall man 

 or the horse must have been a low horse, or perhaps both, for 

 he sees over the horse and portrays the fine spring of muscle over 

 the loin, on the opposite side of the vertebra. From the position 

 of the artist the drawing is slightly foreshortened, and this, to- 

 gether with the advance of his right hind foot, intensifies the 

 droop of the rump, to some degree, in the outline. From the 

 proportions, as shown in the painting, I would conclude he was 

 below fourteen and a half hands high rather than above it. His 

 head is striking and unusually large for an animal of his size, 

 with remarkable width between the eyes, and without a star to 

 lighten it up. His ear is not fine, and it droops backward as he 

 stands, as if half-asleep. His mane is sparse and in disorder. 

 His throat-latch is very good, and the windpipe large and well 

 developed. The neck is of a fair length for a horse of his blocky 

 formation, and there is nothing unusual about it except its great 

 depth at the collar place. The slope of the shoulder is very 

 marked and shows his ability to carry his head in the air when 

 he wished to do so, but the shoulder itself is coarse and angular 

 to an unusual degree. His withers rise very abruptly and there 

 is great perpendicular depth through the carcass at this point. 

 His back is remarkably short and the spread and arch of his loins 

 is simply magnificent. But the point of superlative excellence is 

 in the remarkable development of power in his quarters. His 

 limbs, instead of being "spider legs," are unusually strong for 

 an animal of his size; indeed, they might be considered coarse 

 for any horse that was pretended to be a race horse. His tail is 

 of the usual weight and somewhat wavy. With the addition that 

 there is a little white at the coronet of the right hind foot, 

 and not forgetting his friend and companion the cat, I have 

 made a somewhat detailed description of what is represented in 

 the painting. Several artists examined the picture, and they 

 pronounced it the work of an artist of ability and experience. 

 The signature "D. M. pinxt" was carefully examined, but no 

 one was able to throw any light upon the name represented by 

 the initial letters "D. M." 



While this painting contained within itself evidence of its 

 great value as a likeness of its subject, it lacked confirmation 



