54 THE HORSE. 



among tr.pm as ok" Archy was in Virginia. I have some indistinct lecoJlection u 

 have seen, years ago, an account of a horse among them got by, or out of a mare by. 

 Cock of the Rock Messenger blood again." 



It is now in proof that this Morgan breed is descended from a horse that was stolen 

 from General de Lancey, importer of Wildair, and there is every reason to believe 

 that though he may not have been thorough-bred, he was well steeped in the bast 

 blood of the Anglo-American turf-horse. 



While it has been found impracticable to obtain any precise information as to th 

 pedigree of some of our very best trotters, in other cases where more is known, the) 

 are found to be deep in the blood. Awful, whose performances will be seen in the 

 tab es annexed, is known to have been gotten by a thorough-bred " American boy." 

 Lady Suffolk is by Engineer, but what Engineer not known. Abdallah, as before 

 mentioned, is by Mambrino, and he again, a great trotter, by Messenger ; but Dutch- 

 man, one of our best trotters, has no known pedigree, though we have some reason 

 to think he was by Young Oscar, then at Carlisle. He was taken out of a clay-yard 

 and was transferred to the trotting-turf from a Pennsylvania wagon-team. Wood- 

 ruff thinks blood does not give them length, or the power to go the long distances ; 

 but in this it is believed he must be mistaken. These Canadian or Norman-French 

 stallions, small and compact, which on well-formed large mares give such fine har- 

 ness horses, and trotters, are, as before said, deeply imbued with the blood of the 

 barb taken from Spain into Normandy. W T e have been told lately by an intelligent 

 Englishman, that the infusion of blood into their coach-horses has enabled them to 

 lengthen their stages, and in very observable proportion to the degree of blood. 

 Finally, as where the blood of the trotter when known, is seen to flow in so many 

 instances from a spring of pure blood, is it not fair to infer a similar origin in cases 

 where the blood cannot be traced 1 especially as the universal experience of all times 

 proves that in other paces, the cases have been extremely rare, in which a horse of 

 impure blood has been known to keep up a great flight of speed ? A horse of mixed 

 blood may be a great trotter at a long distance, because his speed at his best is 

 greatly behind that of the best speed on the turf; but it would, according to all prin- 

 ciples of reasoning, be unreasonable to expect great excellence even as a trotter, in 

 horses altogether free from the blood which gives foot and wind to the Eastern 

 courser. Though we may not be able to trace it, and though in solitary cases a 

 horse without it, may possess great speed and lastingness in the trot, from excellent 

 accidental conformation, we repeat that the possession of thfc two, warrants the pre- 

 sumption of the third, however obscure the traces, or remote the origin ; this is our 

 theory ! But the action to be cultivated in the racer and the trotte- is of itself suffi- 

 cient to explain why a racer should not succeed at once on the turf and on the trotting 

 course. All reflecting and observant men will admit that " as there is no royal way 

 to mathematics," so there is but one way for a horse to excell in his business ; and 

 with rare exceptions there is but one in which any individual horse can excel 

 Whatever that business may be, to be perfect in it he should be educated and kept to 

 it and to it only. Jl trotting-horse should do nothing but trot. 



As what has been said may promote a disposition to form clubs in order to culti- 

 vate more generally and certainly the powers of the trotting horse, with the view of 

 practical utility in the business of life, it is deemed well to submit at this point, the 

 Rules o f the Trotting Club at New York. The rules which prevail elsewhere are 

 essentially the same, or so little variant that the difference is not deemed worthy of 

 notice, 



Rules and Regulations adopted by the New York Trotting Club for the Beacon ana 

 Centreville Courses. September 1st, 1841. 



1. All Matches or Sweepstakes which shall come, off over a Course, under the 

 jurisdiction of this Club, will be governed by these Rules, unless the contrary in 

 mutually agreed upon by the parties making such match or stake. 



2. All Purses, Matches, or Sweepstakes to which the Club or Proprietors contri* 

 bute, they shall have the power to postpone, should the weather prove unfavourable 

 on the day previously named for the trotting of the same. 



