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accustomed to turn mare and horse into a 

 *oose box. The result of this natural fit was 

 in one instance the ruin of that celebrated 

 stallion Mr. Low, who, in descending from a 

 mare, struck one of his fore-legs against some 

 projecting piece of wood or stone, and snapped 

 the bone of the arm iri two ; and though he 

 was afterwards enabled to do duty effectually, 

 with some little assistance in descending, he 

 was lame for life. 



" Of all his stud he prized Phantom, win- 

 ner of the Derby in 1811, his produce also 

 winning the Derby twice and the Oaks once, 

 as possessing transcendent qualities as a stal- 

 lion, though the public voice did not respond 

 to this opinion. 



" Mr. Harvey was ever liberal to his 

 friends, and courteous to strangers, whom he 

 received with the urbanity and politeness of a 



use of his hands and legs, could not bear con- 

 finement, took his customary daily exercise in 

 a carriage constructed for his especial comfort 

 and convenience ; the same indeed in which 

 he had a few weeks before visited the Heath 

 at Newmarket, and which the Turf reporters 

 of the London Journals facetiously styled his 

 ooffin,' but which was a mere couch made 

 to fit the door of his carriage, removable so as 

 to enable him to protrude his legs ; and on his 

 return home ate a hearty dinner, shortly after 

 which he was found in his elbow-chair a 

 corpse ! 



" Mr. Harvey, who was in the 68th year of 

 his age at the time of his death, had retired 

 to his living at Caldecot, Beds. He was a 

 good classical scholar, and very attentive to 

 his religious duties till a late period of his life, 

 though he had not at the time of his decease 



gentleman. There was not a particle of self- done public duty as a Clergyman for some 

 ishness about him, and in his convivialities his I years." 



manners gave a zest to the cup of the reveller 

 and a charm to the song of the bard. 



" On the 13th of May (1836), Mr. Harvey, 

 who, though he had for some years lost the 



We have heard that Mr. Harvey, and iho 

 late Mr. Mytton, were considered the most 

 accurate " walking stud-books" in the klnjf- 

 dom. 



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