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what 1 knew of the speed and resolution of this Horse, and judging 

 from his performance with nearly twelve stone, and from what has 

 been since done with lightweights, 1 feel convinced that he would, with 

 seven stone, have trotted over a good road, twenty miles in one hour. 

 Ogden's chesnut mare trotted thirty miles in two hours and ten minutes, 

 carryino-ten stone. These two famous trotters were at one time the 

 property of Captain Martineau and his father, and the Captain informed 

 me, that for a start, the mare had the speed of Archer. 



Nothing has occurred very lately, in the trotting way, much worthy of 

 notice, excepting the performances of the brown mare Phenomena, the 

 second trotter, I believe, which has been tried with jockey weights. In 

 July, IBOO, she trotted between Huntingdon and Cambridge, seven- 

 teen miles in fifty-six minutes, carrying a feather. She afterwards 

 trotted the same distance in less than fifty-three minutes, ridden by the 

 same boy. She was matched to trot nineteen miles in one hour, and 

 received a hundred guineas forfeit; after which, her owner challenged 

 to perform with her nineteen and a half, but it was not accepted. She 

 has lately beaten the best trotter which could be brought against her, and 

 is, I suppose, full twenty years old. She was bred in Surrey, and is 

 half Friezeland, or Flanders. 



It is a remarkable fact, that there has existed no instance of a tho- 

 rough-bred Horse being a capital trotter, although some racers have had 

 a quick and short trot ; for example. Shark, Hammer by Herod, and, I 

 believe, Mambrino. Perhaps no bred Horse has ever trotted more than 

 fourteen miles within the hour, excepting Infidel by Turk, which, after he 

 was out of training, about live-and-twenty years since, trotted fifteen 

 miles in one hour, carrying ten stone, on the road between Carlisle and 

 Newcastle. A similar match with a Race-horse, Mas talked of in the 

 North last year. The reason of their inability is, trotting requires a short 

 and quick step, with the knee considerably bent, and these horses out- 

 stride the trot, and straighten the knee joint; besides, they soon become 

 leo-wearv, and their legs and feet are too delicate for the rude ham- 

 mcring of the speedy trot. There is a variety called running trotters, 

 which step short, but do not bend the knees so much as the fair trotters, 

 iand have a rolling motion, like the rackmg of former days ; speed is 



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