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of 1 783 included among other works from his 

 brush "The Life of a Racehorse " in six scenes, 

 viz., (i) The Foal with the Mare ; (2) The Colt 

 Breaking ; (3) The Time of Running ; (4) As a 

 Hunter; (5) As a Post- Horse and (6) His Death. 

 This horse in his time played many parts ! In 1790 

 a series of six engravings from the " Life of a 

 Racehorse " was published ; but in the absence of 

 particulars it is impossible to know whether these 

 plates were executed from the pictures exhibited 

 seven years earlier or from another set. In 1792, 

 Edward Jeffery, of Pall Mall, published a book, 

 in folio size, from whose title page the following 

 quaint description is taken : — 



" The Life and Death of a Racehorse exemplified in his various 

 stages of existence till his dissolution. The whole drawn and 

 engraved in Aquatinta by Thomas Gooch, Esq., with an 

 Essay tending to excite a benevolent conduct towards the 

 Brute Creation by Dr. Hawksworth, to which is added ' The 

 Song of a Racehorse,' " &c. 



The plates are six in number, and their titles at 

 once challenore comparison with the set exhibited 

 in 1783 :— 



(i) When a Foal with his Dam; (2) When a 

 Colt Breaking ; (3) After running a Race and 

 Winning ; (4) As a Hunter going out to the 

 Chase ; (5) As a Postchaise- Horse, on the Road ; 

 and (6) His Dissolution. 



