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faultless in form and action, with an air of majesty in every 

 attitude. At 6 years old, with very short preparation, he 

 trotted against time in 2m. 27s. He inherits the blood of 

 Messenger through three channels, and of Diomed through 

 two, with a cross of Old Pilot, through his best son, Pilot, Jr. 



Considering that his oldest colts are but 5 years old, and 

 that when those now old enough to show speed were begot- 

 tsn, he had not made his reputation, and did not receive the 

 best of trotting mares, the number and speed of his fast colts 

 is truly astonishing. 



Gift, ch. g., received five forfeits at 4 years old, and chal- 

 lenged through the Spirit of the Times any colt of the 

 same age, to trot in harness for $1000 a side, without being 

 accepted. Bellringer, b. s., trotted in 2in. 40s., before he was 

 4 years old. Gift and Bellringer both belong to Mr. Relf. 

 Cranston, owned by Amasa Sprague, R I., at three years old, 

 trotted the second mile in a two-mile heat in 2m. 40 l-2s. 

 Vosburgh, ch. s., the property of A. & T. H. Carpenter, of 

 Lyons, Iowa, when just 3 years old, trotted several times in 

 2m. 40s., and challenged any other horse in the world of the 

 same age, to trot for any amount, at 4 years old, in Septem- 

 ber 1869. Charles S. Dole, of Chicago, El., has a chestnut 

 mare in his breeding stud, by Mambrino Pilot, that in the 

 management of Dr. Kerr, of Lexington, Ky., trotted in 3m. 

 at 2 years old. Eschol, Detective, Etta, Agitator, and Mam- 

 brino Messenger are other fast colts of the same family. 



VICES AND DISAGREEABLE OB DANGEROUS HABITS QF THE HQRSE. 



The horse has many defects, occasionally amounting to 

 vices. Some of them may be attributed to natural temper, 

 for the human being scarcely discovers more peculiarities of 

 habit and disposition than does the horse. The majority of 

 them, however, as perhaps in the human being, are the con- 

 sequences of a faulty education. 



RESTTVENESS. 



Of all the vices of the horse restiveness is the most an 

 noying and dangerous. It is the produce of bad temper and 

 worse education; and, like all other habits founded on nature 

 and stamped by education, it is inveterate. Whether it ap- 

 pears in the form of kicking, or rearing, or plunging, or bolt- 

 ing, or in any'way that threatens danger to the rider or the 

 horse, it rarely admits of cure. 



