42 THE HORSE. 
THE Li8T OF IMPORTED MARES is most probably still more numerous, 
but they are not so easily ascertained, as, prior to the establishment of the 
American Turf Register, there was no record of them, whereas most of 
the stallions are mentioned in our English Stud Book as having been sent 
out. Mr. Herbert, it is true, gives a long list of them, but many of 
these he himself rejects as apocryphal; and there are some of those 
accepted by him as correct which I have reason to believe have never left 
this country. So also in his list of stallions, even such a well-known 
English covering stallion as Launcelot (brother to Touchstone) is included 
as having been imported into America ; but still, on the whole, I believe 
that his list of mares is not far from the truth. 
THE AMERICAN THOROUGHBRED HORSE is said to be much stouter than 
the modern English strains; and without doubt Mr. Ten Broeck’s Prioress 
can stay better than most English horses, though she is not considered by 
the Americans themselves to be quite up to the best staying form which 
they possess. This subject, however, will be better considered after the 
performances of the English horse are carefully examined. It must be 
remembered that, with the exception of the horses reczntly brought over 
to this country, we have no means of comparison beyond the time test, 
which is not a reliable one ; firstly, because we have no time-races here ; 
and, secondly, because none of our long distances are run from end to end. 
As far as I have had an opportunity of seeing, and with the single excep- 
tion of Charleston, all Mr. Ten Broeck’s horses have been extremely 
narrow, the crack Umpire in particular being “like two deal boards 
nailed together,” as the “men of stable mind” say here. His hips are 
the narrowest I ever saw in a horse supposed to be of first class, and 
those of Prioress are not much more developed. The celebrated horse, 
Lexington, who is out of the same mare as Umpire, is also reported to 
have been very narrow in the hips, so that probably this peculiarity runs 
throughout that strain of blood, but whether derived from Alice Carneal 
or from Boston (who got both Lexington and Lecompte, the latter the 
sire of Umpire) I cannot say. Nevertheless, unless the time-test is 
utterly fallacious, both Lexington and Lecompte must have been stout, 
for they have each done four miles, under seven stone two, in seven 
minutes twenty-six seconds, with a start similar to that adopted in 
England. Lexington, with the same kind of start, has performed the 
same task in seven minutes twenty-three and a:half seconds, and with a 
running start against time, in the extraordinarily short time of seven 
minutes nineteen and three-quarter seconds. I shall now dismiss this 
subject until I can carefully compare the horses of the two countries 
together. 
THE VERMONT CART-HORSE. 
A DISTINCT BREED of draught-horses under this name is described by 
Mr. Herbert as existing in Vermont and the adjacent country, though 
now, he says, less marked than it was prior to the introduction of rail- 
roads. I cannot, however, find any other authority for it, nor do I quite 
agree with the above writer in thinking the breed, if he rightly describes 
it, as identical with the Cleveland Bay. He says, “These are the very 
models of what draught-horses should be; combining immense powcr 
with great quickness, a very respectable turn of speed, fine show, and 
good action. These animals have almost invariably lofty crests, thin 
withers, and well see on heads ; and although they are emphatically draught- 
horses, they have none of that shagginess of mane, tail, and fetlocks 
