. Le livre du cheval : examen-produites, demi-produites, panier-produites, la selle et le faisceau, britanniques et étrangers, avec des notes sur l'équitation, la gestion de l'élevage ; stable, la rupture et la formation de la route, le parc, et le terrain. Les chevaux, l'équitation. 6o Le livre du cheval. qui, comme la propriété du comte, il Lauragiiais effectuée en France, quand, en 1766, il a vingt-deux milles et demi dans l'heure, et une très grosse somme pour son propriétaire. Son endurance remarquable a été une confirmation supplémentaire de la vérité de l'adage détenu par feu Sir Sykes Tatton, que peu de chevaux sont e

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. The book of the horse : thorough-bred, half-bred, cart-bred, saddle and harness, British and foreign, with hints on horsemanship; the management of the stable; breeding, breaking and training for the road, the park, and the field. Horses; Horsemanship. 6o The Book of the Horse. which, as the property of Count Lauragiiais, he performed in France, when, in 1766, he ran twenty-two and a half miles within the hour, and netted a very large sum for his owner. His remarkable stamina was an additional confirmation of the truth of the maxim held by the late Sir Tatton Sykes, that little horses are the best stayers. In looking over the album of portraits of race-horses, blood sires, and brood mares, from the earliest times, collected by the late Mr. Richard Tattersall, the first rude etchings represent a series of impossible animals—the very reverse of the illustrations of the English horses in the Duke of Newcastle's book, or the Italian horse of 1688, given in our last chapter—with scraggy bodies, needle-like legs, and the necks of camels. They seem to have been veritable. I'DRIRAIT OF GIMCRACK, WHOSE PICTURE WAS BEQUEATHED TO THE JOCKEY CLUB liY ADMIRAL ROUS. weeds. Sir William Morgan's Coneyskins, a famous race-horse in 1726, is indeed a miserable wretch ; while a little later, Marskc, the sire of Eclipse, is represented as a thorough-bred weight-carrier all over. Whether the improvement was due to the horses or the artists there is no reliable evidence. For useful purposes (whatever may be the requirements for a modern mile race) it woukl be difficult to find more satisfactory models than the Earl of Egremont's Gohanna, racing in 1790, to whose blood Irish hunters owe so much of their well-deserveil reputation ; or Eleanor, who won the Derby and Oaks for Sir Charles Bunbury in 1801, and looks fit to ride hunting; Trufile and Benedict, in 1808, Woeful and Whisker, in 1812, leave nothing to be desired in the way of strength and quality. To be sure, their short tails

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