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Plate 61. — This beautifully "topped" Shetland pony 

 was a great prize-winner at Agricultural shows many years 

 ago. The strength of his legs, though the more important 

 point of the two, is not in proportion to the size ot his body. 

 Except that he has a neater head and a better set-on tail, he 

 is much of the same class of animal as the Burma pony shown 

 on Plate 32 {sec p. 294). 



Plate 62. — -The Australian race-horse, Bravo (by Grand 

 Flaneur out of The Orphan), won the Melbourne Cup in 

 1889, when in receipt of twenty-one pounds from Carbine (by 

 Musket), who was the best horse that had run in Australasia. 

 When I took his photograph, he was about half-trained, and 

 was consequently somewhat lusty. To judge of him as he 

 was standing for his portrait, he appears to have been a 

 trifle longer in the body, than he was high at the withers, 

 from which fact we might infer that he was not a race-horse 

 of the highest class. He had good shoulders, long neck, 

 short back, and good depth at the centre of his back, and 

 was . consequently a fine stayer. His hocks were not as 

 straight as those of Ormonde (Frontispiece), Favonius (PI. 

 55), or St. Simon (Pis. 7 and 18). 



Plate 63. — Minden was a famous " country-bred " race- 

 horse in India, among his own class, which is not within 

 " measurable distance " of that of English ^50 selling platers. 

 Viewed as a smart saddle-nag, I must say that Minden looks 

 a nice-shaped horse. He has capital shoulders and a good 

 " middle-piece." I may mention that he was in training 

 when I took his photograph. The fact of his being longer 

 in the body than he is high at the withers or at the croup, 



