. A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings . THE DARLEY ARABIAN. The immediate descendants of this invaluable horse, were the Devon-shire or Flying Childers; the Bleeding or Bartletts Childers, who wasnever trained ; Almanzor and others. The two Childers were the means through which the blood and fameof their sire were widely circulated, and from them descended anotherChilders, Snap, Sampson, Eclipse, and a ho
. A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings . THE DARLEY ARABIAN. The immediate descendants of this invaluable horse, were the Devon-shire or Flying Childers; the Bleeding or Bartletts Childers, who wasnever trained ; Almanzor and others. The two Childers were the means through which the blood and fameof their sire were widely circulated, and from them descended anotherChilders, Snap, Sampson, Eclipse, and a host of excellent horses. The Devonshire, or Flying Childers, so called from the name ofhis breeder, Mr Childers of Carr-House, and the sale of him to the Dukeof Devonshire, was the fleetest horse of his day. The following is saidto present a true portrait of I I HNG CHILI ! 72 FAMILY ECLIPSE. He was at first trained as a hunter, but the superior speed and cour-age which he discovered, caused him to be soon transferred to the report affirms that he could run a mile in a minute, but thereis no authentic record of this. Childers ran over the round course atNewmarket (three miles, six furlongs and ninety-three yards,) in sixminutes and forty seconds; and the Bacon course, (four miles, one fur-long and one hundred and thirty-eight yards,) in seven minutes andthirty seconds. Eclipse was got by Mask, a grandson of Bartletts Childers. Of thebeauty, yet peculiarity of his form, much has been said. The very greatsize, obliquity, and lowness of his shoulders were the objects of generalremark—with the shortness of his fore-quarter*; his ample and fineljproportioned quarters, and the swelling muscles of his fore arm andthigh. Ofhis speed no correct estimate can be formed, for he never metwith an opponent sufficiently fleet to put it to t
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