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inspected for this purpose, and equally have the 

 different breeds been consulted. As the public, 

 however, place the greater confidence in blood stock, 

 it may here be mentioned that the appearances per- 

 fectly coincided with those exhibited by a brown 

 colt by Muley Moloch out of Miss Greatrex, and 

 Roxey, a brown filly, by Lanercost, out of Ellen 

 Percy, besides various others which it would be both 

 needless and tedious to recapitulate. The mouth, at 

 this period, indeed is so marked, and in general so 

 regular, that it is the more readily recognized. The 

 new horse incisors, by their size, contrast with the 

 milk teeth which are still retained. The comparative 

 length and squareness of their figure cannot fail to 

 attract attention, and their deeper colour can hardly 

 be unobserved ; that colour is caused by much of the 

 primitive coating of crusta petrosa being retained, or 

 only removed from the edges where the enamel is 

 bright. But as a vast number of horses are sold 

 at this age, and many are started for heavy stakes, 

 it will be imperative now to proceed more cauti- 

 ously in the description. About this time the terms 

 *' rising three," or "coming three," or " three next 

 birth-day," are made use of, as well as " three 



