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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



ambition of a gentleman's driver and the reliability of a lady's? 

 phaeton horse. The influence of the trotting-bred animal is 

 favorably seen in its effects upon the general character of our 

 roadster stock, which it has greatly improved for all practical 

 purposes and enhanced in all desirable respects. In other lines 

 his public performances on the turf have given the trotting; 

 horse a prominence unequaled as his excellence, and he is every- 

 where fancied as the favorite among speed horses. In this re- 

 spect the distinctive trotter is an example of modern evolution ; 

 as will be seen by a reference to the following table, which gives 

 a list of the standard, record-taking performers, in and subse- 

 quent to the year 1806, from which date the development of the 

 trotting classes are credited. 



CHAMPIONS OF THE FAST-CLASS REGULATION MILE-TRACKS. 





1806 

 1810 

 1829 

 1834 

 1S39 

 1844 

 1844 

 1849 

 1849 

 1849 

 1855 

 1859 

 1867 

 1867 

 1868 

 1869 

 1871 

 1872 



Name. 



Yankee 



Boston Horse 



Topsfallant, 3 miles 



Edwin Forrest 



Drover 



Lady Suffolk 



Unknown.. 



Pelham, converted pacer .. 



Highland Maid 



Flora Temple 



Pocahontas, pacing to wagon 



Flora Temple 



Dexter. ." 



Dexter 



Lady Thomas 



American Girl, 31 oz. shoes.. 



Goldsmith Maid 



Lucy 



Name. 



same date 



Goldsmith Maid 



Lula 



Smuggler 



Rarus 



Hopeful 



St. Julien . . 

 St. Julien { 

 Maude S. i 



Maud S 



Maud S 



Jay Eve See 



Maud S . 



Maud S 



Guy 



Sunol 



Nancy Hanks.. . . 

 Alix (against time 





14 

 15 »i 

 15 !4 

 13 Ji 

 14?i 

 12% 

 11?£ 

 11%: 



lovx 



.10 

 095i. 



0S% 



.1(1% 



08% 



04 



03% 



(It is freely predicted that a speed of two minutes is not 

 only possible, but probable, in the immediate future.) 



This gradual development of the trotting horse to his pres- 

 ent state of excellence, and the still greater excellence to which 

 farther development in the future will certainly elevate him, can 

 not fail to improve all kinds of light harness horses in general 

 use. The trotter will train on and breed on. People who are 

 not horsemen, in the strict acceptance of the word, but who, 



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