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drapery & plumes [forming a] suggesting most exciting & beautiful equestrian spectacle. They realize the figured carved by the hand of Phidias on the frieze of the Parthenon to represent the annual festival of the Greeks in honor of Minerva. The small size, yet spirited & "blooded" character of the horses as they pranced & cavorted? in wild freedom around the circle their swelling necks & expanded nostrils, the wild eye peering beneath a shaggy forelock,their long sweeping tails & mains & their tapering limbs & small unshod feet, suggest at once