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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
The celebrated race-horse, known by the name of Flying 
Childers, was the fleetest horse that ever ran, having repeat¬ 
edly accomplished nearly a mile in a minute ; and, carrying 
nine stone two pounds, has been known to perform the 
course at Newmarket—which is three miles and three hun¬ 
dred and sixty yards—in six minutes and forty seconds, or 
at the rate of eighty-two feet and a half in a second of 
time. Eclipse was next to him in fame, and nearly his 
equal in speed, but considerably his superior in conforma¬ 
tion, and from whom spring most of the finest horses which 
this country has produced. 
Long ages of domestication, as well as the variety of 
climate to which horses have been subjected, has produced 
the great varieties in size and general conformation in the 
horse. Every country possesses horses with a peculiarity 
of character belonging to itself; and in each country there 
is great diversity of shape and size. 
SECTION I.—OF BRITISH HORSES. 
THE ENGLISH RACE-HORSE. 
The form of the head, in this horse in particular, is like 
that of the Arabian. His beautifully arched neck is finely 
■set on, and his shoulders are oblique and lengthened ; his 
nind legs are well bent, his quarters are ample and muscu¬ 
lar, his whole legs are flat, and rather short from the knee 
downwards, although not always so deep as it ought to be, 
and his pasterns are long and elastic. 
The thoroughbred horse is by no means a safe one to 
ride on a road, as he seldom lifts his fore feet high enough 
to enable him with certainty to clear the inequalities of the 
road. His action, in consequence, is much more pleasant ; 
and he possesses another quality of much imnortance, 
