242 HUMANE HORSE-TRAINING 



A deal was effected, and shortly after another 

 match was made in North London. It so happened 

 that at the seventh mile the road was level, and the 

 mare, being fit and ready for the match, trotted it 

 inside 2 mins. 45 sees., and won easily. Very few 

 people fancied her, and a good wager was to be 

 obtained. 



I heard on good authority that this mare was by 

 one of the stallions I have mentioned, out of a Welsh 

 pony. There was a great deal of secrecy about the match, 

 and also the mare and her whereabouts, but I heard all 

 about her from an ever-flowing source. It was rumoured 

 after the match that the mare was loaned by Walter 

 Winans, Esq., but only one or two knew where she really 

 came from. 



The late Mr. Winans' pair of British-bred trotters, 

 Harmony and Discord, were by a Hackney stallion. Mr. 

 Winans told me he once had a very good trotting mare, 

 Lady Brilliant. He bought her to be of a certain strain, 

 but afterwards found out she was a " Ringer/' and was 

 really a Wilkes mare. She was a wonderful goer, and 

 he was anxious to breed with her, and it was Mr. Vivian 

 Gooch who advised him to have the mare covered by His 

 Majesty, the Hackney stallion. She was covered two 

 years in succession and her two colts turned out to be 



