ROAD HORSES. 141 



" The day was hot, and it was a sandy country, 

 which made it hard wheeling. I left Druniniondville 

 at two o'clock, and he pulled me by the bit all the way 

 to Moscow. When I got there the sun was quite high. 

 1 then reined him for Sorrell, fifteen miles beyond, 

 and the last three miles were through a sandy pine 

 wood. Here he commenced to rave so much that I 

 was obliged to get out of the buggy at two different 

 times, and hold him by the bit until I rested my arms. 

 So much for Joe Eenock, after driving him ninety 

 miles. 



" I rubbed him dry, and he was in the stable before 

 sunset. I hitched him up the next morning, and he 

 went up to the bit every rod of the sixty miles, the 

 balance of my journey, and did his last with as much 

 ease as any mile in the trip." 1 



Like most other great horses, Joe Renock derived 

 his energy and strength largely from his dam, who is 

 thus described by the Vermont farmer who owned 

 her : " She was a blocky fifteen-hand dark brown or 

 black mare with white strip and one white hind foot, 

 full of pluck and nerve. No better mare ever trod 

 the green hills of Vermont. I have driven her for 

 hundreds of miles, and followed her for days on the 

 farm. I have known her to be taken up from the 

 pasture and driven seventy miles in a day, and it did 

 not take her all day to do it." Joe Renock, foaled 

 at Poultney, Vermont, about the year 1857, was this 

 mare's last colt, she being then twenty years of age. 



The shortest time for one hundred miles is that 

 made by Conqueror, harnessed to a sulky, at Centre- 

 ville, Long Island, in 1853, which was eight hours. 



1 See also page 200 for an instance of good roading. 



