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full fifteen hands and a half high, with bone 

 fufficient to carry twenty flone ; (hewed fome 

 blood, with a mixture of the cart-breed, fuch 

 as we frequently fee in farmers hacks. Her 

 neck was fhort, her fore -hand well elevated, her 

 fhoulder deep, and counter-form, but not very 

 oblique; nor was (lie proportionably deep in 

 the girth. She had fufficient general length, 

 but was not long in the back, yet had plenty 

 of room between her ribs and huggon-bones, 

 with good fillets. Her quarters were amply 

 fpread, and fhe flood well before. In her 

 latter days fhe was a dafhing goer, inclining to 

 the run; but was never remarkable for f peed, 

 nor ever able, as I underfland, to trot the mile 

 in three minutes. 



In the year 1783, or thereabouts, (he trotted 

 over the Epfom road, fixteen miles in fifty- 

 eight minutes and a half, carrying twelve flone, 

 rode by Mr. Aldridge, who at prefent keeps 

 the Repofitory in St. Martin's-lane. This I 

 faw, and it was then faid to be the firfl time, that 

 fixteen miles in one hour, with twelve flone, 

 had ever been trotted. In Oclober 1791, being 

 then eighteen years old, fhe trotted on the 

 Rumford road, fixteen miles in fifty-eight 

 minutes, fome odd feconds, with twelve flone, 

 or thereabouts, beating Green's horfe, for fifty 

 pounds. It was probably, within her powers, 



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