THE HORSE. 5^ 



In 1&31, Chanmll&T) a grey gelding, ridden by a small boy performed 32 miles on 

 the Hunting Park Course, Pa., in 1 hour, 58m. 31s. The last mile, to sate a bet, 

 was trotted in 3in. 7s. 



In October of the same year, George Woodruff drove Whalebont on tht same 

 Course, the same distance in 1 hour, 58m. 5s. He commenced the mutch in a light 

 sulkey, which broke down on the 14th mile, and was replaced by one much heavier. 

 This Course is fifty feet more than a mile in the saddle track, and much more tnan 

 that in the harness track. 



On the llth of September, 1839, Mr. McMann's bay mare, Empress, on the Beacon 

 Course, in a match against time, $600 a side, performed in harness 33 miles in 1 

 hour, 58m. 55s. 



The American horse Rattler was ridden by Mr. Osbaldistone in England, in a 

 match against Driver, 34 miles in 2 hours, 18m. 56s. Mr. Osbaldistone rode 125 

 Ibs. ; Rattler was 15 hands high. 



In July, 1835, Black Joke was driven in a match against time, on the Course at 

 Providence, R. I., 50 miles in 3 hours, 57s. 



A gray roadster is reported to have performed the same distance on the Huntmg 

 Park Course, Pa., in 3 hours, 40m. It was u private match. 



A grey mare, Mischief, by Mount Holly, out of a Messenger mare, 8 years old, in 

 July, 1837, performed about 84 1 miles in 8 hours, 30m. in harness, on the road from 

 Jersey City to Philadelphia. The owner would not allow a whip to be used. The 

 day was excessively warm, and the mare lost her match (to perform 90 miles in 1C 

 hours) through the stupidity of a groom who dashed a pail of water over her with a 

 view of cooling her. 



Tom Thumb, before mentioned, performed on 2d February, 1829, on Sunbury 

 Common, England, 100 miles in 10 hours, 7m. in harness. He was driven by 

 William Haggerty (weighing over 140 Ibs.) in a match-cart weighing 108 Ibs. This 

 performance, so extraordinary, demands more than a passing notice, and we accord- 

 ngly abridge from an English paper the following description : 



Tom Thumb was brought from beyond the Missouri, and is reported to have been 

 an Indian pony, caught wild and tamed. Others again, allowing him to have been thus 

 domesticated, think him to have been not the full-bred wild horse of the Western 

 prairies, but to have had some cross of higher and purer blood. But too little is 

 known of his breeding, savinp* his western origin, to justify any satisfactory specu- 

 lation. 



His height was 14^ hands, and his appearance, when standing still, rough and 

 uncouth. From his birth, he had never been shorn of a hair. He was an animal of 

 remarkable hardihood, a hearty feeder, and though accustomed to rough usage, was 

 free from vice, playful and good-tempered. He was eleven years old when he per- 

 formed his match, and had never had a day's illness. At full speed his action was 

 particularly beautiful he threw his fore-legs well out, and brought up his quarters 

 in good style ; he trotted square, though rather wide behind, and low. He was driven 

 without a bearing rein, which is going out of use in England, and simply with a 

 snaffle-bit and martingale. He pulled extremely hard his head being, in conse- 

 quence, well up and close to his neck, and his mouth wide open. He did his work 

 with great ease to himself, and at 1 1 miles the hour, seemed to be only playing, 

 while horses accompanying laboured hard. 



The whole time allowed for refreshments during his great performance, amounted to 

 but 37 minutes, including taking out and putting to the cart, taking off and putting on 

 the harness, feeding, rubbing down and stalling. The day before and the day after the 

 match, he walked full twenty miles. His jockey provided himself with a whip, but 

 made no use of it in driving him ; a slight kick on the hind-quarters was quite suffi- 

 cient to increase his speed when necessary. 



In Februaiy, 1828, a pair of horses trotted against time 100 miles on th" aiiaica 

 turnpike, on Long- Island, and won in 11 hours, 54m. 



But in June, 1834, a pair of horses belonging to Mr. Theal, trotted that distance in 

 harness on the Centreville Course, within 10 hours, and immediately after Mr. B 

 offered to bet $5500 tha 1 ; he would produce a pair of horses that could trot 110 miles 

 in harnoas vrithin the sa ne time ! The bet was taken, but afterwards abandoned bi 



