verified by the old records of the long-distance 

 courses and four-mile heats, in which horses carrying 

 twelve stone competed, and in which bottom and 

 stoutness were equally important ; and by reference 

 to past numbers of the Racing Calendar, in which 

 particulars of such performances are fully recorded. 

 Happily, also, we possess innumerable old 

 pictures of race-horses by celebrated animal painters, 

 such as Wootton, Seymour, Sartorius, George 

 Stubbs, Chalon, Ben Marshall, Garrard, Gilpin, and 

 others. Among these George Stubbs, R.A., was the 

 pioneer of horse painting, and his six years spent in 

 Lincolnshire on the wolds, in depicting the horse, 

 will immortalize his name. He occupied there an 

 old barn-like sort of a home, where he carried on 

 his studies in anatomy, the results of which he 

 pubhshed.* "The Anatomy of the Horse," eighteen 

 ■engraved plates, has gone through but two editions. 

 This celebrated publication and extracts from 

 it have been used in all the veterinary colleges and 

 schools during the past century, and the original 

 eighteen drawings are now to be seen at the Royal 

 Academy's rooms in Old Burlington Street, to which 

 Society they were bequeathed by the late Thomas 

 Landseer, brother of Sir Edwin Landseer, the 

 eminent animal painter. 



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* " The Anatomy of the Horse ; including a particular description of 

 the bones, cartilages, facias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands, in 

 eighteen tables, all done from nature." By Geo. Stubbs, R.A., oblong 

 folio. London : published 1766. 



