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and his machinery compactly placed for working. 

 The eighteen-hand Magog rolled about hopelessly 

 from distress before he had gone half a mile ; and 

 Wild Dayrell, Filho da Puta, and Birmingham, the 

 latter of whom was about sixteen-three, are the 

 largest horses that we remember to have run with 

 marked success. The turf " ponies," from Milksop, 

 Ancaster Starling, Highlander, and Grimcrack, (who 

 was never beat but once, and then by Bay Malton) 

 down to Midas and Mickey Free, have averaged four- 

 teen-two, and yet no horses have been more fortunate 

 at all distances from a mile to four miles, and at all 

 weights from 8st. 71bs. to 12st. Still, if the pace be 

 strong and true from the start, horses have their 

 distance measured out almost to a yard, and no re- 

 duction of weight, or training, or advantage in size, 

 can get them beyond it. For power, combined with 

 good size and speed, we never met with a finer uni- 

 corn than Stockweli, Longbow, and Lord George. 

 " A ton," as the touts used to remark, was their 

 " game." There has too seldom been a sweeter 

 mare to the eye than Beeswing ; and though Re- 

 covery was thought handsome enough to model from, 

 and Pantaloon was the beau ideal of hosts of English- 

 men as well as foreigners, we are inclined to think 

 that there have been few more beautiful horses than 

 Actseon, Kingston, Fazzoletto, or Envoy, and none 

 more truly proportioned than little Rowton. Still 

 for the type of what a really serviceable racer ought 

 to be, commend to us the low and lengthy Fandango, 

 with those great well hooped ribs knit into the most 

 muscular of quarters, and that stealing action close 

 to the ground, and giving nothing away. It is on 

 the perpetuation of points like these, and not on 

 beauty, that our English horse fame depends. 



It is a very remarkable fact, that although before 

 Touchstone's time, Pot- 8-0' s, Dr. Syntax, Sorcerer, 

 Sultan, Sir Hercules, Catton, The Colonel, Taurus, 



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