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the near hind foot white, said to be 15 hands 3 

 inches in height, but in fact measures, by the 

 standard, only 15 hands and 2 inches. He pos- 

 sesses great power and substance, being well 

 spread and full made throughout his whole frame, 

 his general mould being much heavier than is 

 commonly met with in the thoroughbred blood- 

 horse ; he is, however, right in the cardinal points, 

 very deep in the girth, with a good length of 

 waist ; loin wide and strong ; shoulder by no 

 means fine, being somewhat thick and heavy, 

 yet strong and deep ; breast wide, and appar- 

 ently too full, and too much spread for a horse 

 of great speed ; arms long, strong, and muscular ; 

 head by no means fine ; neck somewhat defective, 

 the junction with the head having an awkward 

 appearance, and too fleshy, and bagging too much 

 upon the underside near the throttle ; his fore 

 legs, from the knee downwards, are short and 

 strong, with a large share of bone and sinew; 

 upon the whole his forehand is too heavy. To 

 counterbalance this, his hind quarters are as near 

 perfection as it is possible to imagine. From the 

 hooks, or hip bone, to the extremity of the hind 

 quarter, including the whole sweep from the hip 

 to the hough, he had not an equal ; with long and 



