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TROTTING FAMILIES. 



HE American trotting horse is derived from these 



sources : — 

 The English thoroughbred. 1 

 The Norfolk trotter. 

 The Arab and Barb. 

 Certain pacers of mixed breeding. 

 .And just as the best running horses now extant in 



1 A thoroughbred is one all of whose ancestors, back to the 

 eighteenth century, are recorded either in the English or in the 

 American Stud Book for running horses. The American work is 

 a continuation for this country of the English. The first volume 

 of the English Stud Book was issued in 1808, and an annual volume 

 of each book is published. 



A thoroughbred is, therefore, a horse of pure running stock. 

 The origin of this stock, which is chiefly Oriental, will be found 

 stated briefly at page 118. 



