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him ; (6) a better Sartorius, showing the horse in repose ; (7) another by J. N. 

 Sartorius ; (8) Eclipse beating Corsican at Newmarket, on October 3rd, 1770, by 

 F. Sartorius. I fear my readers must take it for granted that it is only after careful 

 comparison of these and many others that I have arrived at the selection now 

 presented to them, for the most indulgent of publishers can afford me no more space 

 for artistically commemorating the merits of a single animal. 



" He was a big horse," wrote Mr. Percival, the veterinary surgeon, " in every sense 

 of the word, tall in stature, lengthy and capacious in body, and large in his limbs. 

 For a big horse his head was small and partook of the Arabian character ; his neck was 

 unusually long ; his shoulder was strong, sufficiently oblique, and although not 

 remarkable for, not deficient in depth. His chest was circular; he rose very little 

 on his withers, being higher behind than before ; his back was lengthy, and over the 

 loins reached ; his quarters were straight, square, and extended ; his limbs were 

 lengthy and broad, and his joints large, in particular his arms and thighs were long 

 and muscular, and his knees and hocks broad and well-formed." Mr. John Lawrence 

 says : " When I first saw him, his shoulder was very thick, but extensive and well 

 placed ; his hindquarters appeared higher than his forehand ; and it was said that no 

 horse in his gallop ever threw his haunches with greater effect, his agility and his 

 stride being on a par." 



Whatever picture may result from the various testimonies I have brought together 

 it is certain that Eclipse was never beaten. He never had a whip flourished over him 

 or felt the rubbing of a spur ; outfooting, outstriding, and outlasting every horse that 

 started against him. His pedigree appears in the appendix to my last volume, and 

 though he is certainly the great-great-grandson in direct male descent of the Darley 

 Arabian, it must not be forgotten that the following strains of Eastern blood also 

 entered into his composition : The Lister Turk (5), The D'Arcy Yellow Turk (5), The 

 D'Arcy White Turk (5), The Helmsley Turk (2), The Byerly Turk, The Oglethorpe 

 Arabian, Pullcines Arabian, the Ancaster Turk, the St. Victor Barb, the Fenwick 

 Barb, Hutlons Grey Barb, Huttoris Bay Barb, the Godolphin Arabian, and various 

 " Royal Mares" who are supposed to have been of pure Eastern blood. It should also 

 be noted that through his sire Marske he inherited the blood of that Bustler mare 

 who was fourth dam of the Coney skins mare on page 7 of the General Stud Book, 

 Vol. I., from whose family came Orville, Sultan, Ncwminster, Ayrshire and St. Serf; 

 through his clam Spiletta he traced back to that Royal mare from whom came the 

 Montagu mare, on page 13 of the first volume of the General Stud Book, in whose 



