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legs, have a lofty forehand, a good mouth, a striding gallop, and reach 

 at least, the height of fifteen hands. 



Having introduced the hunter, let us place beside him the TROITING 

 HACKNEY, which is also a sporting character of the Horse. A trotter 

 now, does not merely indicate as formerly, a Horse, the customary and 

 best pace of which is the trot, but one which has sufficient speed in that 

 pace, to race. Southern blood is not indispensable here, the trot being 

 a northern pace; but our stoutest or most lasting trotters are those which 

 have a certain portion of racing blood. 



Extent in the shoulders, and those considerably declining into the 

 waist, form the grand, indeed indispensable requisite, for fast trotting. 

 Nor did I ever, ia my life, see or hear of a trotter, with a narrow and 

 upright shoulder. This species should also have sufficient length of 

 waist, with broad loins and well-spread quarters, throwing the hinder 

 legs wide apart ; much bone under the knee, firm and straight joints, 

 and toudi feet. Trotters should not be wide or marble-breasted, and 

 in action their fore feet must approach sufficiently near, without touch- 

 ing the legs. 



The Russian, Holstein, and other continental trotters, have been ad- 

 verted to. Our own trotting annals do not extend very remotely, but 

 tradition informs us, that old Shields, sire of Scott, the first trotting stal- 

 lion of eminence, of which we have any account, and which covered in 

 Lincolnshire, half a century since, was got by Blank, out of a strong 

 common-bred mare. Hue-and-Cry was got by Scott, and the best 

 trotters which have appeared, and which are now to be found in Lin- 

 colnshire, Norfolk, and that vicinity, have proceeded from Old Shields. 

 That Horsa was succeeded in a few years by another, the property of 

 Jenkinson, called Useful Cub, he was got by a black cart horse, resem- 

 bling, as Jenkinson informed me, the Suffolk breed, out of a chapman's 

 mare. Much of the stock above-mentioned has been bred from this 

 Horse. They were distinguished, in the first produce, by the round 

 buttock and wide bosom of tlieir cart-bred sire, and as I observed in 

 many of them, speed was predominent ; but the stock was soon improved 

 by crossing with racing blood. Pretender, a son of Cub, was out of a 

 well-bred daughter of Lord Abingdon's Pretender, by Marske. Preten- 

 der, 



