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was sold to Senor Bocan for $75,000 and taken to Bnenos 

 Ayres, S. A.; in 1890 he was sold to Baron Hksch for !i?70,000 

 and again taken to England, and was purchased in 1893 by- 

 Mr. W. O'B. Macdonoiigh, of San Francisco, Cal., for $150,000 

 — the highest price ever paid for a horse in the world. 

 Ormonde was never beaten. He is probably the greatest race 

 horse ever bred in Great Britain, or anywhere else. He 

 flourished in an age remarkable for great race horses, such as 

 Minting, Paradox, Melton, Bendigo, Bard, St. Gatien — and 

 beat them aU. He always beat all the Derby and St. Leger 

 winners, and they beat everything else, showing how great 

 they were. Even when his wind was touched they could not 

 beat him, showing how great he was, how indomitable his 

 heart and muscular power. He is one of the few horses that 

 have won the Derby, St. Leger, and the 2,000 guineas ; and is 

 said to be the only horse that ever won the great Hardwicke 

 stakes at Ascot Heath, twice. 

 Ormonde is the liorse of the century.— M. Horace Hayes, M. R. C. V. S. 



Osslet. A hard substance growing on the inside of a 

 horse's knee. 



Large, coarse osslets show cold, mongrel blood, — General Grant's 

 Arabian Horses, Randolph Huntington. 



Out. Horses in a race often do not all appear for the 

 second or subsequent heat ; but those w hich come on the track 

 at the sound of the bell are said to be " out." 



Outfit. The outfit of a rider or jockey in running races 

 consists of cap, jacket, knee-breeches, boots, spurs and whip. 

 The cap and jacket, or blouse, are made of satin ; the breeches, 

 (which are always white), of undj^ed merino ; the boots of calf 

 skin; the spurs of spring steel, and the whip of whalebone 

 with a gut covering. The entire outfit does not Aveigh more 

 than two pounds. 



Out for an Airing-. [Eng.] Said of a horse that is 

 backward, or of one not meant to win. 



Out of Form. A horse that gets a bad start in a heat 

 or race, either by a jump cross-legged, or in some way which 

 makes it plain that the race or heat is lost to him at the start, 

 is said to be " out of form." 



Out of Hand. Hand to hand; a system of private 

 betting from out the hand, or between one person and another, 

 the wager being placed in the hand of a third party. 



Oval Track. A track the sides of which are longer 

 than the ends ; or one where the sides, or stretches, are ninety 

 rods long ; and the ends, or turns, seventy rods long. 



