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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



1814, and a "Sectional Figure of the Horse" in 1813, which was republished in 

 1842. The investigations of Saint Bel would therefore not only be familiar to him as 

 an anatomist, but fresh in his personal memory, and he no doubt acquired the famous 

 subject of them as soon as it was possible to do so, with a zeal which deserves 

 imitation in days when the British Museum of Natural History at South Kensington 

 does not possess a single specimen of similar interest to the horse-breeder. 



Though many entirely irrelevant objects are in the same glass case with it, 



TJif. Skeleton of ' 'Eclipse. ' ' 



As it may now be seen at the Royal College of Veterinarv 

 Surgeons in Red Lion Square (April, 1902). 



the skeleton was thus preserved in the most appropriate place at that time, because, 

 as John Orton records, it was here that these historic bones were originally treated, 

 the muscles being removed, but the ligaments preserved, as may still be seen ; and 

 no doubt it was our enthusiastic Frenchman who did the work, for we find from the 

 title page of Saint Bel's quarto that he was " Professeur au College Veterinaire de 

 Londres." John Orton further records ("Turf Annals," p. 103, York, 1844) that 

 " for many years " this skeleton was preserved " in the Museum of Mr. Edward Bond, 

 Haunch of Venison Yard, Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London, a pupil 



