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run far back, he has a very long " rein." His neck, though 

 muscular, is light for a four-year-old entire. He is coarse 

 about the throat, where the head and neck join. The hori- 

 zontal marks on his legs, on and near his fetlocks, are curls 

 in the hair, due to bandaging. His back view shows that 

 he is narrow behind. The setting-on of the hocks is par- 

 ticularly good. His tail is placed very high on his croup. 



Plates 7 and l8. — The former gives us a portrait of the 

 Duke of Portland's St, Simon (by Galopin out of St, Angela) 

 slightly fore-shortened. The latter shows him in strict profile ; 

 but as it had to be copied from a photograph which was not 

 good enough to bear reproduction, its details have not come 

 out as well as I would have wished. They were both done 

 in 1884, when St. Simon was a three-year-old, and when he 

 was in training. Owing to the death of his first owner. Prince 

 Batthyany, his nominations for the great three-year-old events 

 were rendered void. Despite the fact that he had never met 

 a ereat race-horse, he won all his contests with such con- 

 summate ease that I am inclined to think that as a two-year- 

 old towards the "back end " of the season (1883) and for the 

 first half of his three-year-old career, in other words, as long 

 as he kept sound, he was as fast a horse, with, perhaps, the 

 exception of Ormonde, as ever lived. St, Simon's height at 

 the withers or over the croup, is considerably more than his 

 length of body. Also, his back and loins are remarkably 

 short, and his shoulders are long and extremely oblique, I 

 remember having been greatly struck by the marvellous 

 beauty of his shoulders, and by the shortness of his back and 

 loins, when I saw him for the first time, when he was sold as 

 a tvv'o-year-old in 1883, after the death of his owner. He 



