OVERTON,—another son of _King Fergus_, dam by _Herod_, grand-dam by _Snip_, great grand-dam own sister to _Regulus_, was bred by MR. HUTCHINSON, and foaled in 1788. At York, in 1792, he won a sweepstakes of 100 guineas each, half forfeit, twelve subscribers. The same week he won a fifty-pound plate, added to a subscription purse, beating _Rosalind_, _Storm_, _Halbert_, and two others. The next day he beat _Halbert_ a match four miles, for 300 guineas, giving him a stone. At DONCASTER he won the GOLD CUP of 100 guineas value; beating _Huby_, _Rosalind_, _Smoaker_, _Gentleman_, and _Colchis_. At YORK, 1794, he beat _Halbert_ two miles for 200 guineas. After which he was taken out of training, and became a STALLION at Skipton, near York, at TEN GUINEAS a mare. He is the sire of those famous horses _Cockfighter_ and _Rolla_, bidding fair to become of more considerable celebrity. P. PACE—is an expression to signify the motion, or progressive action, of a horse, as well as one of the human species. When speaking of a man's pace, it is usual to say, he _walks_, he _runs_, or he goes a _good pace_; which becomes applicable to either, meaning, that he is an expeditious WALKER, a fleet RUNNER, or perhaps _both_. A horse has a great variety of PACES, as a _walk_, _trot_, _amble_, _canter_, _gallop_, _rating-gallop_, and _at speed_; _some_ of which many horses have in great perfection, and are exceedingly deficient in _others_; as for instance, a horse shall be a most excellent TROTTER, who happens to be a shuffling, execrable WALKER; he shall be a gay, airy, light figure in a CANTER, and wonderfully deceptive in _speed_. Good GALLOPERS are very frequently bad TROTTERS; and perfection is very difficult to obtain. Some years after the death of that famous horse _Eclipse_, which happened on the 27th of February, 1789, MR. CHARLES VIAL DE SAINBEL, Professor of the VETERINARY COLLEGE, published a work, to prove the unprecedented speed, and astonishing powers, of _Eclipse_, proceeded from the peculiarity of his construction. The work was embellished with ANATOMICAL, GEOMETRICAL, and MECHANICAL drawings, to establish and confirm an opinion, that the motion of the horse became proportionally accelerated, by the precise proportions of the subject geometrically described. The work itself was elaborate, sublime, and so remotely abstruse, that its contents were very superior to common comprehension; and as it communicated but trifling information, (and that founded upon conjecture,) it established no satisfactory data to engage public attention. Whatever was advanced upon the supposed effects of the geometrical proportions of _Eclipse_, would but ill apply to the action of the species in general; it being a fact well ascertained by those who are the most practically concerned, and personally interested, that ill-shaped horses of equal blood frequently exceed those of the fairest proportions; and that horses _inferior_ in SIZE shall prove _superior_ in SPEED.