" Allah, the brother to Ajax," says Mr. J. Romain, 

 " an animal with the most extended lines possible, was 

 smothered by fatigue at the end of six furlongs, after 

 having run over his horses at the start, and leaving them 

 tied to a tree. . . ." 



Never having seen Allah, I will invoke in my de- 

 fense Mr. J. Romain, himself. In his report of the fifth 

 of August, 1906, the editor of the " Sport Universel 

 Illustre " presents Allah to the public in the following 

 terms after his victory in one of the stakes at St. Cloud : 



" Remarkable like many of the produce of his father 

 (Flying-Fox), by the power of his loin, by the length 

 of his hip and the slope of his thigh, with a good body, a 

 low breast and a very long shoulder, he seems to be a 

 little short because his fore legs are brought under 

 the mass as in certain trotters, a deformity which has 

 been called malformation. It appears that this does not 

 keep him from running because, in spite of his horizon- 

 tal arm, Allah galloped along with magnificent strides." 



We think it useless to insist. The attention of the 

 reader is now fixed upon the very detail of conformation 

 which kept Allah from being anything but a sprinter. 



Mr. Romain evokes also a memory of the Prix Gladia- 

 teur in 1889, in which Le Sancy, " the type of the 

 lamented old-time thoroughbred," after having seemed to 

 beat Tenebreuse by his extended and elastic gait quit 

 before the last third of the race, and let his rival go on 

 with her choppy gait. 



No, Le Sancy is not the type of the lamented old thor- 

 oughbred, not by a great deal. With his common shoul- 

 der, with the shortness of his forward half, in spite of 

 the length of his neck, with his straight, short pasterns, 

 with his short femur and his square rump, this animal 

 of very high quality is essentially the type for intermedi- 

 ate distances. What should we do to him to make a pure 



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