BACE-HOESES.] 



THE HOESE, AIs'D 



[kace-uouses. 



guineas, in matches, sweepstakes, and plates ; 

 beating the best horses of his day, at their own 

 play, whether for speed or stoutness. 



Marsk seems to have had the caprices of 

 fortune imparted to him as an inheritance 

 from his sire. Squirt, after running with 

 great repute, became a stallion in Sir Harry 

 Harpier's stnd, who esteeming him of no 

 worth, ordered him to be shot. As the hunts- 

 man was leading him out of the dog-kennel, 

 he was begged off by the stud-groom ; and 

 tliis poor, despised, death-doomed animal after- 

 wards got Marsk, the sire of an immense 

 number of excellent horses, whose united 

 winnings are not now to be calculated. The 

 immediate progeny of Marsk, however, realised 

 to their owners upwards of seventy thousand 

 pounds. 



Marsk died in July, 1779, in his twenty- 

 ninth year. 



ECLIPSE. 



Eclipse, fully master of sixteen stone, was 

 bred by William, Duke of Cumberland, of 

 Culloden memory, and foaled during the great 

 eclipse in 1764, whence the name given him by 

 the royal duke. He was got by Marsk, a 

 grandson, through Squirt, of Bartlett's Childers 

 — to be noticed further on — out of Spilletta. 

 Spilletta was got by Eegulus, son of the 

 Godolphin Arabian, out of Mother Western, 

 which mare was got by a son of Snake, full 

 brother to William's Squirrel, her dam by Old 

 Montague, grandam by Hautboy, out of a 

 daughter of Brimmer — her pedigree not pre- 

 served. Such is the carefully chronicled evi- 

 dence of the purity of our race-horses from 

 Oriental blood. 



The proportions of this animal, as given by 

 Mr. St. Bell, the founder of the Veterinary 

 College in St. Pancras, are as follows : — 



The length of the head of the horse is supposed 

 to be divided into twenty-two equal parts, which 

 are the common measure for every part of the body. 



Three heads and thirteen parts will give the 

 height of the horse from the foretop to the ground. 



Three heads, from the withers to the ground. 



Three heads, from the rump to the ground. 



Tliree heads and three parts, the whole length of 

 the body, fi'om the most prominent part of the 

 chest to the extremity of the buttocks. 



Two heads and twenty parts, the height of the 

 body, through the middle of the centre of gravity. 

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Two heads and seven parts, the height of ti:e 

 highest part of the chest from the ground. 



Two heads and five parts, the height of the per- 

 pendicular line which falls from the articulation of 

 the arm with the shoulder directly to the hoof. 



One head and twenty parts, the height of the 

 perpendicular line which falls from the top of the 

 fore-leg, dividing equally all its parts to the fetlock. 



One head and nineteen parts, the height of the 

 perpendicular line from the elbow to the ground. 



One head and nineteen parts, the distance from 

 the top of the withers to the stifle. The same 

 measure also gives the distance from the top of the 

 rump to the elbow 



One-and.a-half head, the length of the neck from 

 the withers to the top of the head. The same 

 measure also gives the length of the neck from the 

 top of the head to its insertion into the chest. 



One head, the width of the neck at its union with 

 the chest. 



Twelve parts of a head, the width of the neck in 

 its narrowest part. 



The same measure gives the breadth of the head 

 taken below the eyes. 



One head and four parts, the thickness of the 

 body from the middle of the back to the middle of 

 the belly. 



The same measure gives the breadth of the body. 



Also the rump from its summit to the extremity 

 of the buttocks. 



Also the distance from the root of the tail to the 

 stifle. 



Also the length from the stifle to the hock. 



Also the height from the extremity of the hoof to 

 the hock. 



Twenty parts of a head, the distance from the 

 extremity of the buttocks to the stifle. 



Also the breadth of the rump or croup. 



Ten parts of a head, the breadth of the fore-legs 

 from their anterior part to the elbow. 



Ten parts of a head, the breadth of one of the 

 hind-legs taken beneath the fold of the buttocks. 



Eight parts of a head, the breadth of the liam 

 taken from the bend. 



Also the breadth of the head above the nostrils. 



Seven parts of a head, the distance of the eyes 

 from one great angle to the other. 



Also the distance between the fore-legs. 



Five parts of a head, the thickness of the knees. 



Also the breadth of the fore-legs above the knees. 



Also the thickness of the hams. 



Four parts of a head, the breadth of the pastern, 

 or fetlock joint. 



Also the thickness of the coronet. 



Four-and-a-half uarts of the head, the breadth of 

 the coronet. 



Three parts of a head, the thickness of the legs at 

 their narrowest part. 



