THE HUNTER AND STEEPLECHASER. 



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Grand National winner. He possessed, in a high degree^ 

 the pecuharity, which is invaluable in a saddle-horse, 

 of having very powerful limbs in comparison to the 

 weight of his body (contrast the fore legs in Fig. 

 275 with those in Figs. 341 and 370). Specs (Fig. 342), 

 who was honest, clever, and smart at his own distance 

 and under a suitable weight, was built in the same way, 



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Fig. 432. — His Majesty's Ambush II. 



but had not the desirable " close coupling." Manifesto, 

 Cloister, Gamecock, Lord Arthur, Midshipmite, and the 

 vast majority of fine hunters and good chasers, are con- 

 siderably higher at the withers than over the croup. 

 We see this point in Fig. 433, which is a portrait of 

 one of the best weight-carrying hunters that ever crossed 

 the Rugby country ; and in the clever and old-fashioned 

 Irish mare, shown in Fig. 434. Franciscan (Fig. 414), 



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