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most illustrious is Stockwell, 

 who has been described as the 

 most extraordinary sire of all 

 time, whose blood is coming 

 more than ever to the front. 



THE TROTTIXG-HORSE. 



This is an American breed. 

 The trotting-horse is a com- 

 bination of barb and Arab 

 on an English stock. Most 

 if the trotting- and pacing- 

 horses of America may be 

 traced to an English thorough- 

 bred Messenger who was 

 imported into America in 1780. 

 This horse became the founder 

 of the greatest trotting family 

 in the world. The speed 

 attained by some of the 

 fastest trotters is wonderful, 

 a mile being covered in some 

 three or four seconds over two 

 minutes. 



Eussia is the only Euro- 

 pean country with a distinct 

 breed of trotter the ORLOFF. 

 the native races. The Orloff 

 has not the speed of the 

 American horse, but has 

 greater powers of endurance. 

 The trotting-season in Russia 

 is winter, the races taking 

 place on the ice. 



The PACER is not a 

 distinct breed, but so called 

 on account of its curious 

 method of trotting. In 

 trotting the left fore and 

 right hind leg strike the 

 ground at the same moment ; 

 in pacing the fore and hind 

 leg of the same side move in 

 unison. Some wild animals 

 as the giraffe are pacers. 

 " Many American horses," says 

 Mr. Winans, "are able to 

 move with either action, a 

 set of lighter shoes often 

 sufficing to convert a trotter 

 into a pacer." Pacing is 

 a swifter mode of motion 



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SHETLAND POXY AND FOAL. 



These ponies belong to Lady Mary Hope and her sister, who have been very successful in 



breeding them. 



This breed was made by crossing Arab and English horses with 



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CHAMPION SHIRE STALLION. 

 One of Sir Walter Gilbey's celebrated cart-horses. 



