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to Kate Crockett, the dam of Lula, by this same Xorman. Kate 

 Crockett and her daughter each have a thigh 22^ inches; but her son 

 Goodwood, by Blackwood, has a thigh 25 inches long, and is only 15 

 hands 2 inches high. The dam of Rosalind has a thigh 22-2- inches, 

 while her son by Dictator, two years and nine months old, has one 

 24^ inches long. Black Prince, by Dictator, from Madam Loomer, 

 15 hands 3 inches high, has a thigh 24 inches; while Duke of Bruns- 

 wick, by Hambletonian, from same dam, has a thigh only 23 inches; 

 Dictator's dam being a Star mare, and having also the Duroc cross. 

 A small mare, not over 15 hands 1 inch, by Swigert, dam by Eureka, 

 runs in the measure of 38^ — 24 inches; and of the half-dozen of the 

 full-grown produce of Swigert inspected by me, not one showed a 

 thigh less than 24 inches, and in most cases a fraction over. One 

 mare, whose dam was bv a son of Huno-erford's Blucher, he bv 

 Blucher, and he by Duroc, showed full 24f inches. It will be borne 

 in mind that Lady Patriot, a small mare, not over 15 hands 2 inches, 

 had a thigh 24 inches, and her sire was a reputed grandson of 

 Blucher. The inspection of several animals descended from this 

 Hungerford's Blucher leaves no doubt on my mind that the peculiar 

 conformation of Lady Patriot and the Volunteer family is derived 

 from this horse Blucher. I hope the multiplication of facts on this 

 point will make it clear, and I return from the digression. 



Each of these stallions has very noticeable Avithers, and shoulder 

 very flat on the top, not very high, but very wide, and covered by a 

 compact and closely-woven mass of cartilage, very much like that of 

 Hambletonian. It is so compact in each that it is hard to discover 

 the upper edge of the shoulder-blade, so closely is it joined to the 

 withers, and so broad and closely woven is the covering. I have re- 

 cently been told, by one who knew him well, that American Eclipse 

 had much such a shoulder. It is certainly one of great symmetry and 

 strength. The head of each of these horses is plain and bony, but 

 not coarse, and shows the large and prominent brain development of 

 the Messeno-er familv, but not as full and clear as in some of the 

 Abdallahs. The eye is full, but quiet, and not so prominent and 

 expressive as in Hambletonian. The outline and general contour of 

 the body is round, even and compact; good back, not of great length, 

 well ribbed and symmetrical. The croup runs out tolerably straight, 

 but not so much so as in Hambletonian. The tail sits on rather high, 

 and the rump is not in any respect a drooping one, with quarters of 

 moderate fullness, but of the clean, muscular sort, and of even and 



