22 .THE HORSE. 



deal of the Arab form m their lean, bony heads ; have almost 

 invariably fine, lofty, arched crests, and high, thin withers, and 

 show their blood in the softness and fineness of their coats, and 

 in the flat shape and solid construction of their cannon boner, 

 and shanks. 



They have, in a great degree, lost their distinctive bay color, 

 from the numerous blood crosses of other shades ; and are often 

 found chestnuts, iron greys, blue and red roans, and dark browns 

 with cinnamon muzzles ; which last is a favorite color, being 

 supposed to indicate hardiness. Blacks are not so common, and 

 are held to indicate an inferior cross, often of the black Lincoln- 

 shire cart-horse, unless where the line is distinctly traceable to 

 the thoroughbred sire. 



Many of the most distinguished race-horses have been the most 

 favorite and most successful hunter-getters, and have acquired 

 as much celebrity for the transmission of their qualities to their 

 half-bred stock, as they have for their racing descendants ; just 

 in the same manner as Messenger has gained celebrity, in this 

 country, for his roadsters. 



In some districts, particular colors are very prevalent ; indi- 

 cating the preference felt for some particular stallion, which has 

 stood in that neighborhood ; as greys in the AVest riding of York- 

 shire, wliere Grey Orville, a St. Leger winner himself, and the 

 sire of Ebor, Emilius, Muley, and many other racers in a very 

 high form, was a most favorite hunter-getter, and the sire of 

 many of the very best part-bred horses that ever crossed a coun- 

 try — browns, with white locks in the tail, in the East riding, 

 where Woodpecker, of whom that is the distinctive mark to the 

 fourth and fifth generation, stood for several seasons — blacks in 

 the vicinity of Doncaster, the descendants of Smolensko — chest- 

 nuts, wherever that beautiful hoi'se, Comus, covered country 

 mares ; and, in yet later days, dark browns in the North riding 

 of Yorkshire, where that undeniable racer and progenitor of 

 racers, hunters, and steeple-chasers, Lottery, formerly Tinker, 

 by Tramp out of Mandane, has deservedly been the favorite of 

 all favorites. 



It is no wonder, that the offspring of such horses as tliose 

 named above, out of dams begotten by such sires as Ilamble- 

 tonian. Sir Peter Teazle, Doctor Syntax, and Filho da Puta, from 



