32 THE HORSE. 
TWENTY MILES. 
min. sec, 
Trustee, ch. g. to ord. trotting 
sulky, weighing 150lbs, driver? 1.1... °. . . . Nov. 11,1853. 59 354 
WUSoOG 5 a : 
Lady Fulton, b. m. in harness . Dar hie) fe ta et Be a lye G5 bn a Omeros 
FIFTY MILES. hs. min. see. 
Ariel, b. m. in harness, driver { Bull’s Head Course, eat 
weighing 601bs. ; bany, N. Y.. f May, 5, 1846. 3 55 404 
Spangle, sp. g. waggon and driver 
eee fe fei + & Sen. eo 2) Oct tb aap Is comme 
ONE HUNDRED MILES. 
Conqueror, b. g. in harness. . Iban - Nov.12,1853. 8 56 1 
Fanny Jenks, in harness (feather § Bull's Head Course, Al- } 
BVEIGNG) sa eae epee? ie bane Nap yeume. : Des: Dy Naas) | 
Pacine is considerably faster than trotting, as will be shown in the 
following recorded feats :— 
MILE HEATS. 
° cen min. sec. 
Bocshontas, ch, Mm, in Waggon) tiv. a) Jk. eeadane Die pea 
weighing 265lbs. with driver 
i Peden Gea o 6 BWhlbo 5 5 6 6 o 6 San OIE, BIS 
ero. eosin harness). % = <5 2 Guide ve) ee) elayall el On Sen Amn oe 
Young America, b. g. waggon. . 8S. Francisco . . . . Jan. 10,1859. 4 582 
THE EXTENT to which match-trotting is carried on in America may be 
guessed from the fact that Lady Suffolk won, at various times, 35,311 
dollars, or more than 7,000/. The exact value of the stakes which have 
fallen to the lot of the owner of Flora Temple I do not know, but three 
years ago it amounted to 46,850 dollars. Mr. Herbert in his quarto work 
on “The Horse of America” clearly shows the reason why our transatlantic 
cousins excel us in their trotters, and why they take to this species of 
amusement in preference to others. After enumerating several which do 
not appear to us quite so cogent as to him, he more pertinently says, 
“ Another reason, inferior in “practical truth to the others adduced, but 
physically superior, is this,—that before American trotters could be gene- 
rally used in Great Britain, the whole system of British road-making 
must be altered, which is not likely to occur. On an ordinary English 
macadamized turnpike, which is exactly the same as the hardest central 
part of the New York Third Avenue, without any soft track alongside of 
it, an American trotter would pound his shoes off in an hour’s ‘trot, and 
his feet off in a week’s driving; and this is doubtless, whatever may 
be said of the objections heretofore offered, one which must operate 
for ever against the general use of trotters after the American fashion, 
unless they be trained and kept exclusively for sporting purposes. This, 
however, is no more, but even less likely to occur than the total alteration 
of the whole system of English road-making, and the entire change of the 
tastes and habits of the English people: since the point which renders 
the trotting horse so popular here would then be wanting, namely, his 
equal adaptability to ordinary road driving and purposes of general utility, 
and to occasional matching and turf amusements of a peculiar though 
inferior description.” This is the true cause of the “ decline and fall” of 
trotting horses in England, for in the early part of the nineteenth century 
there were ten good performers on the trot for one now. ‘The pace is not 
a natural one, and in its highest perfection, especially, it must be developed 
by constant practice. But this is forbidden on our modern roads, which, 
