56 THE HORSE. 
THE NARRAGANSETT PACER. 
Ir 1s suPPosED that this beautiful variety of the American horse, 
which is tiow nearly or quite extinct, is descended from the Spanislr 
horse. There are several traditions afloat in support of this and other 
theories, but by general consent it is admitted that the above theory as 
to his origin is the true one. According to this, he was introduced into New 
England by Governor Robinson, from Andalusia, and for many years the 
breed was kept up for the supply of Cuba, the voyage being much shorter 
than that from the mother country, Spain. These horses were of good size 
and natural pacers, the action being on alternate sides, but remarkably easy, 
which is more than can always be said of the modern rackers or pacers. As 
the roads improved, however, in the West India island, carriages were 
introduced, and then, the demand ceasing almost entirely, the breed was 
neglected, and is now unknown in its pure form. 
THE AMERICAN THOROUGHBRED. 
Untin THE Enciish THoroucuprep Horse is described, it is scarcely 
possible to enter fully into the pedigree of the American, descended as 
the latter is from stock imported from the mother country. But, taking 
the fact for granted, I may proceed to allude to the progress which has 
been made in the United States, from the date of the first importation. 
It appears that shortly prior to the year 1750, a Mr. Ogle, the Governor of 
Maryland, was in possession of Spark, presented to him by Lord Balti- 
more. About the same time he also imported Queen Mab, by Musgrove’s 
grey Arab ; and, soon afterwards, Colonel Tasker obtained Selima, daughter 
of the Godolphin Arabian ; while Colonel Colville’s Miss Colville, known 
in the English Stud Book as Wilkes’ Old Hautboy mare, Colonel Taylor’s 
Jenny Cameron, and Routh’s Crab, were severally introduced into the 
colony. In 1747, Monkey, by the Lonsdale bay Arab, though in his 
twenty-second year, crossed the Atlantic, and got some good stock, 
followed during the next year by Jolly Roger, by Roundhead, ous 
of a Partner mare. About 1764, Fearnought, a son of Regulus and 
Silvertail, and therefore of the very highest English blood, went to 
America, and within a few years of that date Morton’s Traveller, by 
Partner, out of a mare by the Bloody Buttocks Arabian, which completes 
the list of the importations prior to the War of Independence. It must 
be observed, that, before the year 1829, no Turf Register existed in 
America, and hence there is not the same guarantee for the fidelity of a 
pedigree as in England, where there are authentic records which reach to 
a much earlier period. Moreover, the war upset the homes of so many 
families, that multitudes of documents were lost; but, nevertheless, I 
believe sufficient has been preserved to prove the authenticity of the pedi- 
grees belonging to the horses which I have enumerated, and whose progeny 
can be traced down to the present day, their blood being mingled with 
that of numerous importations of a more recent date. The love of racing 
was very soon implanted in the colonists of Maryland and Virginia, from 
whom it spread to North and South Carolina, and in these southern states 
the sport has been kept up to the present day with great spirit. Tennessee 
was inoculated with the virus of the racing mania soon after its first settle- 
ment, as also may be said of Kentucky, both states having possessed 
same very celebrated horses at various times. New York joimed in ata 
