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COMPARATIVE SHAPE OF HORSES. 



the following table of measurements in inches, taking Ormonde 

 (Frontispiece) and St. Simon (Pis. 7 and 18) as examples of 

 the fleet of foot, and the Shire horse, Cheadle Jumbo, and the 

 Shire mare. Chance (PI. 19), as illustrations of strength. 



* Without shoes. 



I took the measurements of Ormonde on the 20th July, 

 1887, when he was a four-year-old ; and those of St. Simon 

 in September, 1884, when he was a three-year-old. I may 

 mention that the photographs of Ormonde and St. Simon 

 are particularly valuable, as these animals were probably the 

 two best race-horses that have ever lived, and as their 

 photographs were taken when they were in racing condition. 

 I may mention that the outlines of PL 18, have been taken 

 from a photograph which was too much " fogged " to bear 

 reproduction. The shadows, however, have been added by 

 an artist, Mr. Oswald Brown. 



We see from the foreo;oino- table, that some three and 

 four year-old race-horses of the best class are 3 or 4 inches 

 higher at the withers (and at the croup) than they are long 

 in the body ; and that the Shire horse, which is the most 



