"ECLIPSE" AND THE MODERN THOROUGHBRED. 299 



for no less than six things, viz., the thickness of the body from middle of back to 

 middle of belly, the breadth of the body, the distance from summit of rump to 

 extremity of buttocks, the distance from the root of the tail to the stifle (i.e., the 

 articulation of femur with tibia), the distance from the stifle to the hock, and the 

 height from the hock to the extremity of the hoof. 



The perpendicular lines in the measurements of Eclipse are those which are of 

 most value in the above proportions, especially when taken in connection with the 

 facts that his height from the withers to the ground was 66 inches, and from the top 

 of the rump to the ground 67, while the length of his body from the. most 

 prominent part of his chest to the extremity of the buttocks was 69 inches. 



The measurements of the bones in his fore and hind-legs were as follows : 



Ins. 



Shoulder-blade. . . .18 



Htimerus, or arm . . . . .12 

 Cubitus, or forearm , 16 



Canon, or shank . . . . 12 



Pastern, coronet, and foot .... 7 



Ins. 



Os ileon . . . . 12 



Femur . . . . . . .15 



Tibia .19 



Shank or leg . . . . . . 14 



Pastern, coronet, and foot .... 9 



It may be interesting to note here that Lord Rockingham's measurement of 

 Sampson (by Blaze, foaled 1745), who was 15-2, and supposed to have been the 

 largest-boned blood horse ever bred, are given by Mr. H. T. Morland in 1810 as 

 follows : 



Ins. 



(1) Fore-leg, from hair of hoof to middle of fetlock joint .... 4 



(2) From fetlock joint to bend of knee . -. -. . .11 



(3) From bend of knee to elbow . ._; . . . . . . 19 



(4) Round smallest part of leg below the knee . . . 8 J 



(5) Round smallest part of hind-leg .... . . -9 



Taking the centre of motion for the shoulder as the middle of the shoulder-blade, 

 Eclipse's shoulder in movement described a portion of a circle equal to 40 degrees ; 

 his humerus described an equal angle ; his forearm 90 degrees ; his cannon 90 degrees ; 

 the pastern, coronet, and foot described, one with another in their flexion backward, 

 100 degrees. 



In his hind-legs, the os ileon bent upward and downward in an arc of a circle 

 equivalent to 30 degrees ; the femur, or thigh-bone, 50 degrees ; the tibia, 80 degrees ; 

 the shank, 100 degrees; the pastern, coronet, and foot describe, one with another, 

 100 degrees. 



It will be seen therefore that the total of the flexion in both the fore and hind- 

 legs of Eclipse comes to a perfect circle of 360 degrees ; and if to this perfect 



