experienced men, one of whom had groomed 

 or ridden almost every one named, and the other 

 is an old amateur, who has the quickest eye for 

 ahorse, and who rode after most of those named, 

 and has seen tiiem all repeatedly. Of the twen- 

 ty-nine in the list, they differed only about eight, 

 and of these only bj- one inch, save in a single 

 case. In the eight cases we have given the 

 estimate of the jockey who had ridden or driven 

 them, and have great faith in its accuracy. 



Names. hands, inches. 



Dutchman 15 3J 



Lady Suffolk 15 2 



Columbus 16 1 



Aaron Bun- 1.5 1 



Rattler (tlie latest) 15 2 



Screwdriver (old) 16 



Do. (latest) 15 



D. D. Tompkins 15 



Lady \V arrington 15 1 



Lady Victorj- 15 2 



Topgallant .". 15 3 



Sir Peter 15 2 



Whalebone 15 3 



Shakspeare 15 2 



Betsj- Baker 15 3 



Cato : 16 



Edwin Forrest 15 



Burster i 15 



Xorman Leslie 15 3 



Contideuce (latest) 15 2 



Locomotive -."?. 16 



Sally Miller 15 3 



Charlotte Temple 15 



Washington 16 



Modesty 14 2 



Greenwich Maid 15 



Awful 15 3 



Henry 15 1 



Paul Pry 16 



TRAI.VI\"G A.VD JOCKETISG THE TROTTKR. 



The acknowledged superiority of the per- 

 formances of the American over English trot- 

 ters, or, to speak ^vith more precise accuracy, 

 extraordinary.- performances in a greater number 

 of cases, has been already attributed to superior 

 skill in training • but on that ^ve must not be 

 understood as layin? .so much stress as upon s«- 

 periorjockci/'c'hip in this particular department: 

 for th^ training of the trotting horse, so far as 

 ■we can learn, requires no considerable skill, 

 save as it is connected -with the skiU of the 

 jockey, who usually, acts in both capacities. — 

 For training, the whole code is said to consist 

 of three words — air, exercise, and food. The 

 work given him in training is severe according 

 to his constitution, and consists in walking him 

 from twelve to tvventy miles daily, and giving 

 him " sharp work '' tliree or four times a ^veek. 

 This '• sharp work " is usually a distance of t%vo 

 miles, or sometimes three. The horse is not 

 put to his speed this entire distance, but taught 

 to rouse himself at intervals, at the call of his 

 jockey, \Nho encourages him and brings out his 

 utmost capacity by his voice, not less scarcely 

 than by the usual persuasion of whip and spur. 

 This feature of trotting jockevship is peculiar, 

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and not a little amu.sing. The jockey is contin- 

 ually talking, or rather growling, to his horse, 

 and at times he bursts out into shouts and yells, 

 that would be terrific if not so ludicrous. The 

 object would appear to be twofold — first, to en- 

 courage his horse to the utmost possible-exertion 

 of his po^vcrs when called upon ; and, again, so 

 to accustom him to this harsh shouting, that he 

 may not break up when he hears it from the 

 opposing jockey — for it is deemed not unsports- 

 manlike for one jockey to break up the pace of 

 another's nag by thus actually frightening him. 

 Many a victory has Hiram Woodruff won by 

 thus rousing his ovm horse and breaking up Ids 

 opponent's on the last quarter. These two mile 

 drives are not repeated as is usual in training 

 the race-horse. Nor is the work of the trotter 

 given at intervals so regular as in the case of 

 the other, nor is he kept in such habitual quiet ; 

 tlie trainer consults his own convenience to a 

 great degree as to the time Ts-hen he will give 

 his nag exercise, and he never hesitates about 

 taking him out and showing him at any hour. 



In other respects, too, the treatment of the 

 trotting-horse differs from that of the more high- 

 bred racer. Less deUcate in constitution and 

 form, he is less delicately fed and groomed. — 

 Allowed to eat when and what they please, 

 trotting-horses are groomed with much the same 

 care as well-kept towTi coach-horses, or perhaps 

 the English hunter. In the two grand points of 

 keeping tliem in robust health and giving them 

 hard work enough, the training of the trotter 

 and the racer is identical. But. for the trotter, 

 from six to eight weeks' training is deemed suf- 

 ficient. We are inclined to believe that very 

 much of the superiority of the American trotter 

 and roadster is attributable to the skill of the 

 jockey. Our mode of driving them differs es- 

 sentially from the English ; and, though neither 

 ea.sy nor elegant it succeeds admirably in de- 

 veloping the capabilities of a horse at this pace. 

 The case already cited of Wheelan and the 

 horse Alexander, in England, is in point, and it 

 is practically illustrated every day in New- York, 

 many English residents of which city are trot- 

 ting amateurs; they, one and all. after a little 

 experience, adopt the Yankee mode of driving. 



It has long been a question exciting much in- 

 terest, whetlier twenty miles has been, or can 

 be, trotted in one hour. There is no record of 

 any such performance, although there have 

 been many attempts to do it. But men of great 

 judgment and long- experience are so fu'lv con- 

 fident of the ability of our hor.ses to go that dis- 

 tance at the required rate, that lai-ge odds would 

 be laid that it can be done. The diflBcuily is to 

 find an indiWdual who will, at this day, back 

 him to an adequate amount ; for it will readiiy 

 occur that ahorse that can accomplish the feat 

 must be of great value, and the risk of injurj- to 



