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training, he was a little higher at the withers than long in the 

 body ; and about as high at the croup as at the withers. His 

 legs, though long, were muscular, and their bones strong, 

 as we may perceive from the appearance of his fore arm and 

 gaskin and from the shape of the limbs below the knees and 

 hocks. He had a particularly straight-dropped hind leg. 

 Although he was in training when this photograph was taken, 

 he shows great depth of body in the centre of the back : a 

 fact which points to the unusual length of his back ribs, and to 

 the admirable shape of his chest for purposes of breathing. I 

 may point out that his roaring infirmity, being a nervous 

 disease of his larynx, had nothing to say to his conformation. 

 As his neck agrees in length with his limbs, and as his withers 

 run far back, he had a very long *' rein." His neck, though 

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

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

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

 in the hair, due to bandaging. His back view (Fig. 289) 

 shows that he was narrow behind as compared with a middle- 

 weight hunter (Fig. 288). His hocks were particularly good. 

 His tail was placed very high on his croup. 



Fig. 9 shows St. Simon (by Galopin out of St. Angela) 

 slightly fore-shortened. Fig. 229 gives 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 great 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 



