38 PHENOMENA MARE; HER TREAD. [BOOK I. 



right construction, in the same manner as a horse 

 lame of a leg may be passed off for sound should 

 the corresponding leg of his body also fall lame. 

 Much the same is it with the third kind of dis- 

 agreement, in the opinion of many people ; be- 

 cause it has existed in some celebrated horses, 

 and they would have us believe that this very dis- 

 agreement was itself the cause of the celebrity 

 those individuals arrived at. This, however, was 

 not the fact. 



7. The Phenomena mare, unquestionably the 

 first trotter of her inches in our days, never did 

 her work in style : nobody could account for her 

 achievements upon the view, and we had always our 

 doubts whether her's was afair trot, though we won 

 upon her. In the trot she had an unaccountable 

 shuffle. She was low before, but had the gift of 

 taking her fore feet out of the way of the hinder, 

 which fell (in the walk) about half a shoe beyond 

 that of the fore ones, the feet reaching the ground 

 in succession, like drumsticks. 



Laertes, a well known grey horse, which was 

 hunted in Leicestershire, 1818, 1819, of no par- 

 ticular powers any where, and confessedly clumsy 

 in the fore hand, without much fire, was yet in 

 the habit of taking the ordinary six feet leaps with 

 ease, and clearing a ditch of twenty-five feet with 

 pleasure, often exceeding those admeasurements by 

 nearly a fourth. Eclipse is known to all of us (as 

 matter of history) for having had a low shoulder, 

 which gave his fore quarters an awkward appear- 



