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and, with the exception of good quarters and 

 loins, as little like a race horse as need be. If 

 we may credit report of the trial of his speed 

 against time he was an extraordinary animal. 

 Flying Childers, of whom similar reports are 

 circulated, or rather handed down, looked a good 

 deal more like a Flyer. 



But it was from no such cause as the quality 

 of the horses then running that the present breed 

 of thorough or three-quarter bred horses had 

 not appeared ; the fact is, they were not wanted 

 in days when twenty miles in four hours was the 

 maximum of speed at which our good ancestors 

 were conveyed in their coaches, such horses 

 as are now in use would have jumped out of 

 their harness if restrained by dragging the coach 

 out of one hole and presently getting it into 

 another. This mode of conveyance at the time was 

 accelerated speed for the conveyance of the fair 

 dames ; the pillion, I apprehend, must have been 

 a walking affair, unless, by an amble pace then 



