Excerpt from Famous Horses of America: Containing Fifty-Nine Portraits of the Celebrities of the American Turf, Past and Present; With Short Biographies He went stealing along with a low, easy stride, his head levelled and generally inclined a little in towards the fence, on the other side of which the carriage horses were. His speed was so great that he could go within himself while other horses were running nearly their best rate and tiring, and for staying qualities which result from good wind, good disposition, sound legs, and easy action, he was unrivalled. His gameness was unquestionable, for when his feet were burning hot in the time race, and both the fore plates were badly twisted, he no sooner heard Arrow approaching than he shot away like an arrow from a Comanche bow. He was not a horse of the large bone, which some declaim about as the summum bonum, but his joints were large and strong, and his legs clean and sinewy. He was a very bloodlike horse, much more so than his sons of some fami lies, and his head was clean out, as if struck out of marble by the chisel of a great sculptor. When blind in his pad dock his appearance was grand as that of Belisarius in his old age. He died at Woodburn Stud Farm, in Kentucky, July 1, 1875. Lexington hit with nearly all sorts of mares, but those who were by English horses seem to have suited him best. The cross with the daughters of Glencoe was generally happy in its results. The same may be said of that with those of Yorkshire, and the Leviathans and Albions also suited him well - Sportsman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.