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HEIGHT OF FOALS BY MEASUREMENT. I think few of us have any definite idea how high an average thoroughbred foal stands. I know I had not until the other day, and I have since asked several practical horsemen, all of whom were wide of the mark in the answers they gave, most of them guessing "about nine hands." Now I was enlightened on the subject when I went down to the Southcourt Stud last Wednesday to see the foals out of four mares which I bought last December for Mr. August Belmont to mate with Tracery. That gentleman had written over to have the measurements of thu foals taken, and Mr. Ashby, who manages the stud for Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, had measured them accordingly. He is a veterinary surgeon, and well accustomed to measuring horses, but, as he told me, he had never before measured foals. Here is the result: Bay colt, foaled April 24, by Lemberg out of Moneta: Height, eleven hands; girth, three feet four inches; bone, below knee, five inches. Chestnut filly, foaled April IS, by Lemberg out of Cattish: Height, twelve hands one and one-half inches; girth, three feet nine inches; below knee, five anil one half inches. Chestnut filly, foaled March 5. by Marajax out of Royifl Coinage: Height, twelve hands; girth, three feet seven inches; below knee, five and one-half inches. Bay colt, foaled April 11. by Duke Michael out of Gallows Hill: Height, twelve hands; girth, three feet nine inches; below knee, five and one-quarter inches. I certainly never realized before that foals stand so high, but there is no question about it. It was satisfactory to find these all to be well grown and doing well, for the mares took a lot of buying at the limit that was given me, and tlie four averaged under 450 guineas each. Lembergs fee is 300 guineas, and to have two foals by him at such ii moderate outlay in the purchase of mares is good luck indeed. Moreover, the dams of tlie two Lemberg foals are high-class marcs indeed. Cattish, which won over 800 pounds an a two-year-old, is a daughter of Melton and tracing to Busybody. Moneta is a young mare by Spearmint out of Jubilee, by Diamond Jubilee out of Jeunesse Doreo, by Isinglass. Either of these mares, with Lemberg foal at foot and covered by Tracery, is worth what the whole four cost. Royal Coinage is a young mare by Minting, tracing to Carine, and Gallows Hills, whose foal is as good as any of them, is by Galashiels son of Galopin and Thebais out of Indulgence, by Trenton, her dam Lenity, by Bend Or out of Clemence dam of Sandiway and grandam of Carbine. "The Special Commissioner" in London Sportsman.
