HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 



THE RACE HORSE. 



Ix Great Britain, the breed of Horses seems to 

 be as mixed as that of its inhabitants. By great 

 attention to the improvement of this noble animal, 

 by a judicious mixture of several kinds, and by 

 superior skill in management, the English Race 

 Horse* is allowed to excel those of the rest of 



* The following account of the prizes won by some of our capital 

 Race Horses, will shew the importance of that breed in England, 

 where such vast sums frequently depend on the issue of their 

 contests : 



BAY MALTOX ^by Sampson), the property of the late Marquis of 

 Rockingham, in seven prizes, won the amazing sum of 5, gool. At 

 York he ran four miles in seven minutes and forty-three and an half 

 seconds, which was seven and an half seconds less time than it was 

 ever done in before over the same course. 



CHILDERS (well known by the name of Flying Childers) the pro- 

 perty of the Duke of Devonshire, was allowed by sportsmen to be the 

 fleetest Horse that was ever bred in the world: he started repeatedly 

 at Newmarket against the best Horses of his time, and was never 

 beaten: he won, in different prizes, to the amount of nearly 2,ooo/. ; 

 and was afterwards reserved as a stallion. The sire of Childers was 

 an Arabian, sent by a gentleman as a present to his brother in 

 England. 



DORIMANT, a famous Horse belonging to Lord Ossory, won prizes 

 to the great amount of 13,3637. 



