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strain or variety of the Shire. Dodman 

 seems to have been used as a stallion in 

 the district whence was obtained, nearly a 

 century later, Honest Tom (1105), whose 

 portrait faces page 60. 



Our next engraving Is from a picture by 

 George Morland, w^hlch was probably painted 

 at about the same date as that of Dodman. 

 That artist, between 1790 and 1795, went 

 into hiding In Leicestershire to escape from 

 his creditors ; he took up his abode in the 

 neighbourhood of Mr. Bake well's famous 

 Dishley Farm ; and the horse portrayed 

 resembles in no small degree pictures of 

 some of Mr. Bakewell's stud, which at that 

 period had attained its highest repute. It is 

 therefore exceedingly likely that this repre- 

 sents a typical Leicestershire Cart Horse of 

 the time. It belongs to a type differing in 

 some respects from Dodman, being longer 

 in the body, finer about the head and lacking 

 the hair-lock in front of the knee, while the 

 mane, tail, and feathering- on the leos are less 

 profuse. These two portraits afford oppor- 

 tunity of comparing two varieties of the 

 Shire, the Fenland and the Leicestershire. 



The Sporting Magazine of 1796 contains 

 an article headed "Operations on British 



