580 THE IMPROVED AKT OF FAHKIERY. 



culator, shortly after starting, broke down ; notwith- 

 standing which, although he had nearly two miles 

 to run, and gave the filly Amanda forty pounds, 

 after a severe struggle he ran a dead heat with 

 her. 



In December, 1815, Lord Carmarthen, son of the 

 Duke of Leeds, whilst hunting with his father's hounds 

 in the neighbourhood of Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, 

 leaped a brook which was bank full ; and on being 

 measured the next day from hind-foot to fore-foot, it 

 was twenty-six feet nine inches. His grace, though 

 known to be a superior horseman, did not venture 

 over it ; neither did the huntsman nor whipper-in, nor 

 indeed any other person in the field. Lord Carmarthen 

 was on Philippic, an excellent hunter, which, when 

 two years old, was one of the most speedy horses of 

 his age. 



' About twenty-five years ago,' says Mr. Lawrence, 

 ' an Irish horse, for a wager, leaped over the wail of 

 Hyde-park, close to the gates of Hyde-park Corner. 

 The height of the wall on the side on which he rose 

 was six feet, and on the other side eight. The horse 

 was about fifteen hands high, without anything remark- 

 able in his general appearance. He was led up to the 

 wall till within the distance of half a dozen yards, when 

 he was turned loose. In going over it, however, he 

 knocked off a brick with his hind-leg ; and a dispute 

 arising from that circumstance, he was brought round 

 again to the same place, when he cleared it in the 

 most perfect manner at the second time of trial. 



' This leap, considering the great height of it, and 

 its taking place over such a hard and unyielding sub- 

 stance as a brick wall, appears almost incredible ; but 

 the author can vouch for its being a fact, from having 

 been an eye-witness on the occasion.' 



