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der, by Cub, I was informed, without being compelled to believe the 

 fact, trotted a mile in two minutes and a half. He was a successful 

 stallion, and exclusive of the consideration of fast trotting-, the Fen 

 country has, from the above sources, produced the most active, 

 strongest and best-shaped road stock, to be found in this kingdom. 



Of the capital trotters I have spoken somewhat at large, in another 

 work to which I refer the curious. It will be sufficient here, to report 

 some of their greatest performances. Shuffler and Monkey I barely re- 

 member; the former Avas not remarkable for very great speed, but so 

 steady a trotter, that it was almost impracticable to whip him out of his 

 trot. He was the property of the well-known Shock Sam, of Moor- 

 fields, and was finished in the post-cliaise work, at Ingatestone. 



About the year 1780 Aldridge's brown mare (afterwards Bishop's) 

 trotted sixteen miles in fifty-eight minutes and a half, eight miles out, 

 and eight home, over the road between London and Epsom, carrying 

 twelve stone, and jockied by Mr. Aldridge, the present proprietor of the 

 Repository, in St. Martin's-Iane. This performance I witnessed, and in 

 fact accompanied, and it was the first authentic proof, of that distance 

 having ever been trotted within an hour, with twelve stone. In 1791, 

 the same mare, being then eighteen years old, repeated the performance 

 upon the Romford road. In 17!:)2, a five-years-old son of Pretender, 

 trotted in Lincolnshire, sixteen miles in fift3^-nine minutes, carrying 

 fifteen stone. This I give on newspaper report. The loclvsmith's grey 

 mare, which I knew, trotted seventN^-two miles in six hours. Archer, 

 so named from Archer, the sheep-salesman, who brought him to 

 London, out of Norfolk, trotted, about the year 178.5, sixteen miles 

 in fifty-four minutes and a halt" ridden by Johnson, upwards of eleven 

 stone. 



Archer, perhaps the most capital trotter which has ever ajipeared in 

 England, was killed by this match, the ground being so hard \\ith frost, 

 that the excessive shaking, induced lever and inflammation in the 

 horse's feet. On this match it was, that I first proposed setting up a 

 light weight, by the adoption of which, since, such great things have 

 been done in tlje trotting way ; but my very earnest message to one of 

 the parties concerned, was either not delivered, or disregarded. From 



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