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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
The points of Eclipse to which I would particularly di¬ 
rect the attention of the breeder and sportsman are, the 
curve or setting on of his head, the shortness of his fore¬ 
quarter, the slant, extent, and substance of his shoulders, 
the length of his waist, and breadth of his loins; the extent 
of his quarters, and the length and substance of his thighs 
and fore-arms. Although he was a powerful horse, he was 
nevertheless thick in the wind ; and in a sweat or hard 
exercise he was heard to blow at a considerable distance. 
This famous horse, the progenitor of our best racing stock, 
died on the 27th of February, 1789, at Canons, aged 26 
years. His heart was taken out, and it weighed fourteen 
pounds. 
FLYING CHILDERS. 
This horse was well known, and sometimes called Devon¬ 
shire Childers. He was the property of the Duke of Devon¬ 
shire, and allowed by sportsmen to be the fleetest horse that 
ever was bred in the world He started repeatedly at New¬ 
market against the best horses of his time, and never was 
beaten. He won in different prizes, to the amount of 
nearly twenty thousand pounds, and was afterwards re¬ 
served for breeding The sire of Childers was the Darley 
Arabian, sent by a gentleman as a present to his brother in 
England. Childers was somewhat more than fifteen hands 
in height. He was the property of Leonard Childers, Esq., of 
Carr House, near Doncaster, and was sold, when young, 
to the Duke of Devonshire. 
The dam of Childers was Betty Leedes, by Old Careless ■ 
his grandam Olden, sister to Leedes, by Leedes’ Arabian ; 
his great grandam by Sparker, out of the Old Morocco mare, 
Sparker’s own dam. The affinities in blood of this pedi¬ 
gree are very close. 
