THE ENGLISH RACE HORSE. 89 



rand bone of every animal in the field. They were placed there 

 to be inter-bred and to produce race horses. Every one of the 

 thousand owners was anxious to produce a great winner, and he 

 was left to the exercise of his own fancy and judgment as to 

 what cross would be most likely to prove successful, and to vindi- 

 cate his superior intelligence. With all experimenting outside 

 of the breed practically barred, the instincts of the breed ripened 

 and intensified until its representatives are able to beat the fleet- 

 est in the world at the gallop, but they could neither walk fast 

 nor trot fast. It is doubtful whether any person in the world 

 has ever seen a true-bred race horse that could trot a mile in 

 four minutes. At this gait they show no aptness nor speed what- 

 ever. By breeding to fit the modern methods of racing, the 

 speed of the race horse has been greatly increased, for short dis- 

 tances, but his stamina and endurance no longer command ad- 

 miration as in former generations. 



In the latter half of the last century there were a good many 

 excellent trotters in England, but the further we get away from 

 the blood of the old English pacer, the fewer the trotters we 

 find, until at last there are none at all. It seems to be true of 

 all countries that where there are no pacers there are no trot- 

 ters. It was not the purpose nor wish of the English people to 

 banish the trotter, but when the pacer was banished the trotter 

 soon followed him. 



