AMERICAN TROTTER. 
the means of saving his life. An ordinary Hackney had been ridden to a spot far from 
home, very difficult to find, and into which neither he nor his rider had previously been. 
Two years afterwards, the same journey was repeated, but at a distance of three or four 
miles from his destination the night closed in and the rain poured in torrents. Having 
entirely lost his way, the rider in despair flung the reins on his Horse’s neck, and left him 
to his own desires. The intelligent animal proved himself equal to the trust which was 
reposed in him, and in half-an-hour drew up at the house which his master was visiting. 
The power of the well-bred Hackney niay be imagined from the following feat, 
recorded in the above mentioned work,— 
“An English bred mare was matched to trot one hundred miles in ten hours-and a 
half. She was one of those rare animals that could do almost anything as a hack, a 
hunter, or in harness. On one occasion, after having, in following the hounds and 
travelling to and from course, gone through at least sixty miles of country, she fairly ran 
away with her rider over several ploughed fields. She accomplished the match in ten 
hours and fourteen minutes, or deducting thirteen minutes for stoppages, in ten hours and 
a minute’s actual work, and thus gained the victory. She was a little tired, and being 
turned into a horse-box, lost no time in taking her rest. On the following day she was as 
full of life and spirit as ever. The owner had given positive orders to the driver to stop 
at once on her showing decided symptoms of distress, as he valued her more than any- 
thing he could gain by her enduring actual suffering.” 
Our Transatlantic brethren have long been celebrated for the excellence of their 
trotting Horses, and have succeeded in obtaining a breed of Horses that are intended 
