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Ability to pull Weight considered. Form best calculated for it. Mere 

 Bulk useless. Long Striders seldom Weight-pullers. Kemble Jackson. 

 Description of him. Kemble Jackson and Washington. Kemble 

 Jackson and the Nelson Colt. Kemble Jackson and Black Harry. 

 Kemble Jackson, O'Blenis, Lady Brooks, and Pelham. Kemble Jack- 

 son. Mountain Maid, and Flash. The Kemble-Jackson Check. 

 Kemble Jackson, O'Blenis, Pet, lola, Boston Girl, and Honest John. 



AS the development and improvement of the fast trotter 

 has exerted, and must continue to exert, a vast in- 

 fluence upon the general horse-stock of the country, used 

 for road-purposes, it is necessary to consider another qualifi- 

 cation besides those of speed and bottom. A horse may be 

 fast on the course before a light sulky, just as a running- 

 horse may be very speedy for a mile with about a hundred 

 pounds on his back, but not calculated for general use on 

 the road, or to improve the common road-stock as a stallion. 

 The ability to pull weight is a quality of exceeding value ; 

 and, when it is found in connection with speed and stoutness, 

 wo may safely say that the three prime characteristics of 

 the harness-horse are obtained. It is to be remembered that 

 the ability of which I speak is that which can pull at a 

 great rate ; so that putting on extra weight, up to a reason- 

 able point, shall make no very great difference in the per- 

 formance of the trotter. Almost any horse can pull a 

 moderate weight at a slow pace, on a good road ; but those 

 that can take along about four hundred pounds, and keep 

 the pace good for two or three miles, are, and always have 

 been, rather scarce. 



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