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of * the Row ') ; and it is recorded of the Go- 

 dolphin Arabian that he ' got 'em of all colours,' 

 but duns by preference, like Buffcoat (Lord Go- 

 dolphin's, dam Silverlocks), that was imported 

 into Virginia about 1750. Nor is it without 

 physiological interest to watch the gradual dis- 

 appearance of peculiarly coloured coats as the 

 breed of English racehorses improves. 



In respect of the nomenclature, we have grown 

 so much more refined or varnished — though 

 Catch-'em-alive and Kill-'em-and-eat-'em show 

 little polish — that some of the names given to 

 racehorses in the olden times (from 1709 to 1760, 

 let us say) cannot now be so much as set down 

 on paper for the public eye, and others would 

 not be tolerated if they were now given for 

 use. Among the latter may be classed Lord 

 Drogheda's Hell - fire (which would have to 

 take the form of Gehenna or Gohanna, at least), 

 Louse, Bloody Buttocks, Dung - cart, Sweetest- 

 when-naked, Lady Thigh, and many another, 

 which it is curious that conventionality should not 

 have banished from a sport in which, as we have 

 seen, ladies personally participated to a noticeable 

 extent. But that ladies were not likely to be 



