ABOUT TROTTING HORSES. 



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of the English turf. It was a most lucky circumstance for American 

 studs that a. scion of these coarse horses was imported, to stamp his impress 

 upon the thoroughbred of this country. We have found that kind of 

 coarseness to be the embodiment of strength, bone, muscle, and conse- 

 quently of most enduring speed and bottom. 



III. Imported Bellfounder. 



This wonderful animal was known in his day as the Norfolk trotter, 



and was, like Flying Childers, a phenomenon of the turf. He was 



fifteen hands high, a bright bay in color, with black legs. Being seven 



years old at the date of his importation, in 1822, he must have 



