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VOLUME XXXI.—No. 8. NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1S72. NEW SERIES—No. 307. 
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THOROUGH- BRED HORSE LONGFELLOW .—Drawn from a Photograph. — Engraved for trie American Agriculturist. 
Whatever we may think of races and rafting, 
every one likes a fine horse, and has a curiosity 
to see and know something about the animal 
whose exploits have been heralded from one 
end of the country to the other. Longfellow , 
now five years old, was bred and raised by John 
Harper, of Midway, Ky., and is by Leamington, 
dam Nantiorah. Leamington is a celebrated 
imported racer, whose portrait we gave in Juue, 
1870, and has a World-Wide reputation to which 
his progeny are not likely to do discredit, As a 
three-year-old, Longfellow won several important 
races at the West. In his career as a four-year- 
old, last year, he won several races, but was 
beaten at Saratoga in August by Helmbold. His 
owner, determined that he should recover his 
lost prestige, entered him for the Monmouth Cup 
(Long Braneli), which was run for on July 2d, 
against Harry Bassett. The race, 2^ miles, was 
easily won by Longfellow by a hundred yards, 
in 4:34. Longfellow is 161 hands high, of a 
full brown color, very strong quarters, and has, 
according to the opinion of his owner, the best 
set of legs ever put under a horse. He has a 
very neat and intelligent head, but his neck is 
defective on account of an accident which oc¬ 
curred to him when quite young. We under¬ 
stand that Mr. Harper 1ms declined an offer of 
$80,000 for Longfellow, but he does not care to 
part with his pet for a less sum than $100,000.. 
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