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found her grown out into a beautiful specimen of 

 the thoroughbred brood mare. She has great 

 strength but there is no himber about her ; and 

 her fine quahty of l^one, strong back and muscular 

 quarters, would have delighted the late Sir 

 Tatton Sykes, whose hatred of a big overgrown 

 horse has grown into a proverb. Mr. Snarry had 

 intended sending her to Doncaster, but, acting on 

 the Duke of AVestminster's advice, he chansred 

 his mind and sent her with her own sister, Lizzie 

 Agnes, to Bend Or. The latter mare, with her 

 foal, was purchased by the Duke, and Tiger Lily 

 produced the best foal Mr. Snarry thinks he ever 

 bred. For good looks he is certainly the superior 

 of his brother in blood. He has beautiful 

 shoulders, muscular thighs, and rhe best of 

 limbs. 



It is in his middle piece that he is so much the 

 superior of Ormonde, and he has not the long 

 back, and somewhat flat-sided appearance of that 

 horse, which detracts no little from his good 

 looks, and Avhich caused a famous Yorkshire 

 trainer to say in our hearing, when the horse was 

 being saddled for the Leger, " He looks like a 



d great coach horse," adding to himself, as 



Archer mounted, " I wish I had one like him." 



We could have watched his magnificent action 

 for an hour, as he gambolled round the paddock, 

 moving his shoulders and bending his hocks in a 

 manner suggestive of pace, and we wondered if 



