24 HE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
placed it to his own credit in 2:13. He wasa rangy bay gelding, hind 
ankles white, a star and a snip, sixteen hands high, and a very fine, elastic 
mover, with his long neck well up, and a graceful precision of stroke 
rarely seen. He is the dcau t¢deal of a gentleman’s trotter. Robert Bon- 
ner has him now, so that his turf career was necessarily short. 
Scarcely had Rarus disappeared from the public when St. Julien 
made a record of 2:12, which he afterward improved to 2:114%. Heisa 
. Copyrighted, 1884, b: 
BASHAW (GREEN’s). The American Book Co. 
bay gelding, white hind ankles and a small star, about fifteen and three- 
fourths hands high, of a rakish pattern and a pair of inclined, branching 
hips and angular leverage, unmistakably pacing-like, but never known to 
strike a pace. Although distinguished for intelligence, his head, according 
to the popular notion, does not suggest such intelligence, it being large and 
marked by a receding skull and Roman nose. In movement he is so power- 
ful and easy as to give the impression that some outside force is propelling 
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