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Two photographs of horses for comparison - the top image is of the Thoroughbred Arab horse, "Nimr" of the Hunington Stud and directly descended from the desert Arab "Kismet"; and the bottom image is of the type of lightly built Thoroughbred horse, "Pretty Polly" which is an extreme example of the racing type.

Photograph of the champion Harness horse, "Dan Patch" whose record breaking time was 1:56 during a race in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1906.

Illustration of the English racehorse, "Vestris" at 11 years old standing in a field in the 19th century. The text beneath the image notes that the horse was by "Whalebone" out of "Varennes,"dam of "Albert"; to ilustrate by comparison the change in type in seventy years.

Photograph of the Thoroughbred stallion, "Hanover", who ran in fifty races and won thirty-two securing $120,912 in prize money. He sired the prize winners of 1896-1898 and is in stud at McGranthia, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America in the early 20th century.

Photograph of the 6 year-old chestnut heavy-weight Hunter, "Orator" whose sire was "Oritlambe". The horse won first at Newark, Peterboro, Essex and Leicester and the Fifty-Guinea Champion Cup at the Royal Lancaster Show in the early 20th century.