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CHAPTER XXVII. 



EXAMINATION OF OUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF HORSES. 



In this chapter I intend briefly running over the chief 

 points of the horses whose portraits are given in this book, 

 and shall assume, so as to avoid needless repetition, that my 

 readers have mastered the observations which I have made on 

 the various '' points." 



Frontispiece. — Ormonde (by Bend Or out of Lily Agnes) 

 was, I need hardly say, the horse of the century. He is 

 a little higher at the withers than he is long in the body ; 

 and about as high at the croup as at the withers. His legs, 

 though long, are muscular, and their bones are strong, as 

 we may perceive from the appearance of his fore-arm and 

 gaskin and from the shape of the limbs below the knees and 

 hocks. He has a particularly straight dropped hind leg. 

 Although he was in training when this photograph was taken, 

 he shows great depth of body in the centre of the back : a 

 fact which points to the unusual length of his back ribs, and to 

 the admirable shape of his chest for purposes of breathing. I 

 may point out that his roaring infirmity being a nervous 

 disease of his larynx, had nothing to say to his conformation. 

 As his neck agrees in length with his limbs, and as his withers 



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