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ribbed-up as horses, but the Trotter which requires staying 

 power is generally round in the barrel and as well ribbed-up 

 as the chaser. Although " the vast majority of fine hunters 

 and good chasers are considerably higher at the withers 

 than over the croup," the American Trotter is generally 

 lower in front than behind. There is in the Trotters a great 

 length of hind quarter from the hock upwards, and the 

 pelvis generally droops posteriorly. As a rule he is good- 

 natured, tractable, and easily trained. His step generally 

 is long and low, qualities which admit of speed, but which 

 do not attract public interest as readily as the high and 

 showy action of the Hackney. 



Although it was later than the middle of last century that 

 match trotting really became fashionable in America, the 

 breeding of trotting horses is now one of the greatest live 

 stock industries in the United States. Trotting does not, 

 however, monopolise the racing interest in America. In 

 New York, flat races are much more numerous than trotting 

 races, and absorb by far the greatest share of the attention 

 of sporting men. Towards the West the interest in trotting 

 increases, and in Kentucky, for example, it is all-absorbing. 



N.B. For further information, see The Trotting and the 

 Pacing Horse in America^ by Hamilton Busbey. London : 

 Macmillan & Co., 1904. Price 8s. 6d. net. 



