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legs and contracted heels should be much less so. 

 The former would not produce any malformation in 

 the offspring got by him, nor the slightest injury to 

 the future stock of horses. The latter, having been 

 caused by overwork, or by more work than the legs 

 can stand, would. He wonders " they didn't clip his 

 ears." I wonder more they don't now straighten 

 their legs before allowing them to be used for foal 

 getting. The writer thinks that Childers never went 

 the pace attributed to him, for stop-watches were not 

 always to be relied upon in those days. It forms no 

 part of my creed to believe, or disbelieve, the accounts 

 of his speed any more than it does to believe that 

 some of the celebrated sires of the present time have 

 the beautiful legs at five years old they are drawn and 

 painted with at three. " Facts are stubborn things ;" 

 I say so too. Let us all then see for ourselves, and 

 believe, or disbelieve, according as our own eyes may 

 be straight or askew. Put no faith in paintings nor 

 in descriptions. 



The writer praises the '' Flying Dutchman." Un- 

 doubtedly the greatest part of him was superb, and the 

 same may be said of " Muley Moloch," but I should 

 be very sorry to bet that the legs and the feet of either 

 were straight and perfect at five years of age. A two- 

 year-old by the former was offered me many years 



