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Answers to Questions on Horses

1. Great Horse of Troy.-2. Pegasus.-3. (a) A handicap that was to break " Shackles " (Kipling's Broken Link Handicap). (b) The polo pony who really captained the side and won the match in Kipling'a " Maltese Cat."-4. John Gilpin.-5. Craganour. —0. Iseult. A. Lindsay Gordon's " How we beat the favourite " (Lay of the Loarnshire Hunt Cup).-7. Roland.-8. Richard III (Shakespeare).-9. Uncle Tom Cobleigh, Stc., from Tam Pierce (Widdecombe Fair).-10. (a) Don Quixote. (b) Alexander.

(c) Marmion. (d) The four sone of Aymon (the horse which grew larger or smaller according to whether one or more of the brothers mounted it).-11. The Thracian Diomedes by Heracles, because all strangers who came to hie country were treated thus.- 12. Erichthonius (Virgil, Geer. I. 113).-13. The MacGregor's (Scott)—Gregalach.