156 State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



the Boiilevaivl and Harlem Lane, in New York, the Xeck 

 tind out to Brighton, in Boston, and to otlier popular resorts 

 in other cities, for their recreation, thej want size, ]>one, 

 •courage, endurance, and, a1)ove all, stead-mess, combined ; 

 and that same steadiness, or, in horse parlance, level-head- 

 edness, to judge from the answer of Dan Mace, wliose abil- 

 itv as a trainer and race driver amounts to i2:eiiius, to an 

 amateur, who told him that he owned a young horse that 

 could trot in 2::iG and repeat, and tliat he proposed to enter 

 liim in the great Northern Trotting Circuit, is quite as 

 •essential on the I'ace track, if not more so, as any where 

 else. " Is that all your horse can do V says Dan. " Whist 

 more is required than speed and endurance ?" was the 

 interrogatory. " Why," replies Mace, " you must not only 

 train him in company, but when he can trot three heats 

 •close together low down in the twenties, and come down 

 the home stretch under the wliip, if necessary, at every 

 stride, witli a i-unning horse at his side urging him up to 

 the last fraction of his courage and speed; and all the 

 grooms are strung out down the course and at the ju.dges' 

 stand, hallooing, beating tin pans and making all kinds 

 ■of f]-ightening noises, and yet the horse comes on steadily, 

 without making a break or a nustake ; then, and not till 

 then, have you a reliable trotter that can win at Buffalo oi- 

 Cleveland." 



In Maine, in New Hampshii-e, in Massachusetts, in 

 Rhode Island and Cr)nne(;ticut, the same general conclusion 

 lias been arrived at, that the breeding: of trotting horses 

 distinctively as a source of [)rofit, is a failure ; yet when 

 speed is connected with other qualities, for general use and 



