. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 534 THE HUNT HI!. having been purchased for a mere trifle, and then permitted to run nearly wild in the New Forest. Spiletta, his mother, only ran one race, in which she was beaten, and Squirt, the father of Marsk, was actually saved by the intercession of a groom as he was being led to the slaughter-house Eclipse was never beaten, and his racing career extended only through seventeen months, and in that short period of time he won more than $125,000. At his last race he was obliged to w
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 534 THE HUNT HI!. having been purchased for a mere trifle, and then permitted to run nearly wild in the New Forest. Spiletta, his mother, only ran one race, in which she was beaten, and Squirt, the father of Marsk, was actually saved by the intercession of a groom as he was being led to the slaughter-house Eclipse was never beaten, and his racing career extended only through seventeen months, and in that short period of time he won more than $125,000. At his last race he was obliged to walk over the course, as no one dared enter a Horse against him. Ten years after that event, his owner, Mr. O'Kelly, was requested to sell him, and demanded the sum of 8125,000, an annuity of $2,500 a year, together with six of his offspring yearly. When he died, in 17iSt), he was twenty-five years old, and had realized for his owner a princely fortune. His. IIFNTEK shape was very remarkable, the hinder quarters being considerably higher than the shoulders and his breathing was so thick that it could be heard at a considerable distance. He was origi- nally purchased for about $400. Many thoroughbred Horses which are not suitable for the purposes of the turf are admira- bly adapted for the chase, and are trained for that purpose. The body of the Hunter should not be so long as that of the racer, and requires greater compactness, in order that he may not fatigue himself by taking too long a stride over ploughed land. A comparatively7 large foot is required, in order to save it from being destroyed by the rapid alternation of soft and hard ground which the animal is obliged to traverse, and which would battel-a small contracted foot to such an extent as to render the Horse useless. The low shoulders of Eclipse would be very injurious in a Hunter, on account of the numerous and trying leaps which it is often called upon to perform. The best bred Horses are generally the most affecti
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