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eight miles in thirty-seven minutes, returning over the 

 same ground in thirty-six minutes. On another occa- 

 sion she accomplished forty-three miles in three hours 

 and twenty-live minutes. This is great roading. 



Vermont Champion, a son of Sherman Morgan and 

 grandson of Justin Morgan, was once driven by his 

 owner, Mr. Knights, from Concord, Vermont, to Port- 

 kind, Maine, with a load of pork. The trip down, 

 presumably in a sleigh, took three or four days, the 

 distance being very nearly, if not quite, one hundred 

 and ten miles. On arriving at Portland, Mr. Knights 

 found a letter that had been sent by stage, informing 

 him of illness in his family ; and the next morning he 

 started for home, which he reached about eight o'clock 

 in the evening of the same day. " Old men are now 

 alive," says my informant, "who saw Champion the 

 next day, and who state that he looked fit to repeat 

 the exploit." 



But perhaps the most remarkable horse of which I 

 have been able to obtain a trustworthy account is Joe 

 Renock, a blood bay inbred Morgan stallion of great 

 style and beauty, kept for many years at Sherbrooke 

 in the Province of Quebec. He stood about 15.1 

 and weighed about eleven hundred pounds. A for- 

 mer owner thus describes him : " He had the hand- 

 somest head I ever saw on a horse. His neck was 

 perfect ; so was his body. He had the most beautiful 

 long mane and tail that ever graced a horse. In 

 passing your finger through them, the hair felt as soft 

 as silk. He had as perfect a set of legs and feet as 

 ever was seen. His legs were of the flinty kind, as 

 clean and smooth as those of a deer." Like Justin 

 Morgan, Joe Renock was excellent under saddle. 



