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THE AMERICAN FARMER. 



Three-Nik Heats. 



Norfolk, 4 yrs., 100 Ibs., Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 23, 1865, 

 5:27^,5:29^. 



Brown Dick, 3 yrs., 86J4 Ibs., New Orleans, La., April 10, 

 1855, 5: 30%, 5:28. 



NOTE. Brown Dick would have been a 4-year old under 

 present rules. 



Four Miles. 



Ten Broeck, 4 yrs., 104 Ibs., Louisville, Ky., Sept. 27, 1876 

 &quot;against time&quot; 7:15%. 



Fellowcraft, 4 yrs., 108 Ibs., Saratoga, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1874, 

 7:19H. 



Lexington, 4 yrs., 103 Ibs., New Orleans, La., April 2, 1855 

 &quot;against time&quot; 7:19%. 



Janet, 6 yrs., 115 Ibs., Louisville, Ky., Sept. 27, 1879, 7:25. 



Four-Mile Heats. 



Ferida, 4 yrs., 105 Ibs., Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., Sept. 18, 

 1880, 7:2324,7:41. 



Lexington, 4 yrs., 103% Ibs., New Orleans, La., April 14, 

 1855, 7: 23%. 



NOTE. Lecompte was withdrawn after the first heat. 



Lecompte, 3 yrs, 86 Ibs., New Orleans, La., April 8, 1854, 

 7:26,7:3814. 



Thad. Stevens, aged, 115 Ibs., San Francisco, Cal., 7:30, 

 7: 43. Joe Daniels, 4 yrs., 103 Ibs., won first heat in 7: 42J4- 



Glenmore, 4 yrs., 108 Ibs., Baltimore, Md., Oct. 29, 1879, 

 7:3014,7:31. 



Willie D, 4 yrs., 105 Ibs., won first heat in 7: 29J4. 



HURDLE RACES. 



[One Mile, over Four Hurdles.] 



Judith, 5 yrs., 145 Ibs., Brighton Beach, N. Y., July 17, 1880, 

 1:51. 



[Mile Heats, each Four Hurdles.] 



Joe Rhodes, 5 yrs., 140 Ibs., St. Louis, Mo., June 4, 1878, 

 1:50%, 1:5014. 



Frank Short, 4 yrs., 135 Ibs., St. Louis, Mo., June 11, 1880, 

 1:5114,1:54^. 



Bay Rum, aged, 130 Ibs., Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., June 25, 

 1880, 1:51, 1:57. Gallagher, aged, 100 Ibs., won first heat in 

 1:61-4. 



[Mile anJ a Furlong, over Five Hurdles.] 



Glasgow, aged, 160 Ibs., Saratoga, N. Y., July 30, 1881, 2:07. 

 [Mile and a Quarter, over Five Hurdles.] 



Ohio Boy, 6 years, 140 Ibs., Brighton Beach, N. Y., Sept. 17, 

 1880,2:19. 



Glasgow, aged, 146 Ibs., St. Louis, Mo., June 6, 1881, 2:20. 



Waller, 6 yrs., 162 Ibs., Saratoga, N. Y., Aug 14, 1878, 2: 21^. 



[Mile and a Half, over Six Hurdles.] 



Ventilator, aged, 137 Ibs., Brighton Beach, N. Y., July 31, 

 1880, 2: 49%. 



Problem, 6 yrs., 158 Ibs., Monmouth Park, N. J., Aug. 14, 

 1880,2:50. 



[Mile and Three-Quarters, over Seven Hurdles.] 

 Judith, 5 yrs., 150 Ibs., Monmouth Park, N. J., Aug. 19, 

 1880, 3: 17K. 



[T\vo Milec, over Eight Hurdles.] 



Tom Leathers, aged, 117 Ibs., New Orleans, La., April 16, 

 1875, 3:47}4. 



Ventilator, aged, 135 Ibs., Sheepshead Bay, June 20, 1880, 

 3:4% 

 Redman, 4 yrs, 132 Ibs., Louisville, Ky., May 19, 1876, 3:48^. 



! [Two Miles and a Quarter, over Nine Hurdles.] 

 Cariboo, 5 yrs., 154 Ibs., Monmouth Park, N. J., Aug. 28, 

 1875,4:33. 



The Breeding of Horses. The improvements that have been brought about among 

 the various classes of domestic animals through the efforts of intelligent breeders is truly 

 wonderful, and although many obstacles in this department are to be constantly met, and 

 many intricate questions that present themselves in the pursuance of this art must forever 

 continue to remain mysteries, yet, in the main, breeding has been reduced to a science, and 

 the governing principles and laws in this department of Nature s vast laboratory have come 

 to be so well understood that the skillful breeder can mold, as it were, by a judicious selec 

 tion and combination, based upon a knowledge of hereditary law, the ideal animal into the 

 real, and can prospectively determine, with considerable certainty, the result of such selection 

 and union. The breeder may, therefore, be said to possess, in a great measure, the creative 

 power, making use of the material that he finds within his reach as the potter does the clay 

 to combine and mold the object desired, after the various patterns and designs, for the 

 different uses to which the result of his effort is to be appropriated. 



Thus we have to-day among horses, those intended for speed in running and trotting; 

 for style, the different classes of carriage-horses; those adapted especially for the saddle; the 

 heavy draft-horse, and the general-purpose horse, or what might be termed the model farm- 

 horse. 



In view of what has thus far been accomplished, the intelligent breeder has great 

 encouragement to continue his efforts towards farther developments and improvements, for 

 the field is indeed a vast one, and it seems almost impossible to reach the limit. 



Those animals that combine the greatest number of excellences for the use to which 

 they are to be appropriated are, of course, the best; but as what would be desirable in one 

 type or class of horses would be an objection in another class, the purpose for which the 

 animal is to be used should first be considered. For instance, the form of the trotter would 



