130 THE HORSE 



nection with this: "If you look at the Egyptian wall 

 sculpture sand paintings you will notice that the Egyptian 

 chariot horses are represented either galloping or pacing, 

 never trotting." 



An extremely fast trotter was Hadramaut, a pure Arabian, 

 bred by Mr. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at Crabbet Park in 1880, 

 and it was claimed for him he could trot sixteen miles 

 within the hour in an ordinary dog-cart when the property 

 of Mr. H. Stephens, of Cholderton, near Salisbury. More- 

 over he won the Oriental Stakes on the flat, at Sandown 

 Park in 1884, for his then owner Major K. F. Meysey- 

 Thompson, carrying the top- weight 10 st. 4 lbs., and 

 though only a four-year-old he gave weight away to aged 

 horses. He was ridden by Tom Cannon, and was by Kars, 

 a Seglawi Jedran, out of Hagar, a Kehilet Ajuz, a cele- 

 brated mare in the desert of Arabia, very powerful, and 

 15 hands in height. Mail Train, who came from Smyrna, 

 was another fast trotter, also the property of the writer. 

 Amongst many very fast trotting thoroughbreds may be 

 mentioned Camaltha, by Camballo out of Violet by Janus, 

 out of Kick-up-the-Dust, winner of eight races on the fiat, 

 yet who never broke from her trot when used as a hack. 

 In the course of one winter the writer often had occasion 

 to visit a relative who had met with an accident and 

 lived fourteen miles away. Although there were some 

 streets to traverse, when perforce the mare was obliged 

 somewhat to restrain her ardour, also three, or sometimes 

 four, gates to open, besides being compelled to walk for a 

 short distance once or twice during the journey for the sake 

 of resting, the longest time ever taken between the two 

 houses was one hour and ten minutes. The mare used 

 never to break from her trot, and such was her courage that 

 it was impossible to make her go slower than her top speed. 

 After she had walked about a hundred yards she would start 

 off again at her best pace, though the rider would have pre- 

 ferred to take things easier. Almost if not quite as fast a 

 trotter was Chariberta, by Charibert out of Tita, the latter 

 the winner of twenty-two races on the flat. Again, another 

 very fast trotter was Lady Bo-Peep, by Hagioscope out of 



