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Ossian (by Richard Marsh), and Kilvvarlin (by 

 J. Jewett), all at Newmarket ; and The Lambkin, 

 by the Osbornes at Middleham. 



The breeders of these and other distinguished 

 horses may seem equally entitled to commemora- 

 tion ; but their names for the most part can be 

 discovered from the ' Stud Book.' 



A few words in conclusion must be devoted to 

 the questions of colour, height, and nomenclature. 

 Her Majesty's reign has witnessed the almost 

 total disappearance, so far as horses of note are 

 concerned, of all colours except bay, brown, and 

 chestnut, though there have been one or two 

 good blacks, such as Saunterer ; grays, such as 

 Chanticleer and Strathconan ; and roans, such as 

 Warlock and Rapid Rhone. As for height, 

 16 hands, which was thought marvellous in the 

 old days, when a horse that stood 15.2 was named 

 Sampson, is a common height nowadays, even 

 for two-year-olds, and race-horses have been 

 known to reach 18 hands. Of such was a horse 

 well named Magog ; but, as he is reported to 

 have been unequal to running more than half a 

 mile, and that certainly not at the rate of a mile 

 a minute, or even a minute and a half, his sort 



