54 THE HORSE. 



among thorn as old Archy was in Virginia. I have some indistinct recollection to 

 have seen, years ago, an account of a horse among them got by, or out of a mare by, 

 Cock of the Uock — .Messenger blood again." 



It is now in proof that tliis IMorgan breed is descended from a horse that was stolen 

 Trom General de Lancey, iniporter of Wildair, and there is every reason to believe 

 that though he may not have been thorough-bred, he was well steeped in the best 

 blood of tlie Anglo-American turf-horse. 



While it has been found impracticable to obtain any precise information as to the 

 pedigree of some of our very best trotters, in other cases whore more is known, they 

 are found to be deep in the blood. — Awful, whose performances w'ill be seen in the 

 tables annexed, is known to have be(^n gotten by a thorough-bred "American boy." 

 Lady .Suffolk is by Engineer, but what Engineer not known. Abdallah, as before 

 mentioned, is by ?,Iambrino, and he again, a great trotter, by IMessenger; but Dutch- 

 man, one of our l^est trotters, has no known pedigTce, though we have some reason 

 to think he was by Young Oscar, then at Carlisle. He was taken out of a clay-yard, 

 and was transferred to the trotting-turf from a Pennsylvania wagon-team. — Wood- 

 ruff thinks blood does not give them Itngth, or the power to go the long distances ; 

 but in this it is believed he must be mistaken. These Canadian or Norman-French 

 stallions, small and compact, which on well-formed large mares give such fine har- 

 ness horses, and trotters, are, as before said, deeply imbued with the blood of the 

 barb taken from S])ain into Normandy. We have been told lately by an intelligent 

 Englishman, that the infusion of blood into their coach-horses has enabled them to 

 lengthen their stages, and in very observable proportion to the degree of blood. 

 Finally, as where the blood of the trotter when known, is seen to flow in so many 

 instances from a spring of pure blood, is it not fair to infer a similar origin in cases 

 where the blood cannot be traced ? especially as the universal experience of all times 

 proves that in other paces, the cases have been extremely rare, in which a horse of 

 impure blood has been known to keep up a great Jlight of t<peedJ A horse of mixed 

 blood may be a great trotter at a long distance, because his speed at his best is 

 greatly behind that of the best speed on the turf; but it would, according to all prin- 

 ciples of reasoning, be unreasonable to expect great excellence even as a trotter, in 

 horses altogether free from the blood which gives foot and wind to the Eastern 

 courser. Though we may not be able to trace it, and though in solitary cases a 

 horse without it, may possess great speed and lastlngness in the trot, from excellent 

 accidental conformation, we repeat that the possession of the two, warrants the pre- 

 sumption of the third, however obscure the traces, or remote the origin; — this is our 

 theory ! But the action to be cultivated in the racer and the trotter is of itself suffi- 

 cient to explain why a racer should not succeed at once on the turf and on the trotting- 

 course. All reflecting and observant men will admit that " as there is no royal way 

 to mathematics," so there is but one way for a horse to excell in his business ; and 

 with rare exceptions there is but one in which any individual horse can excel.— 

 Whatever that business may be, to be perfect in it he should be educated and kept to 



it — and to it only. Jl trotiing-horse should do nothing but trui. 



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As what has been said may promote a disposition to form clubs in order to culti- 

 vate more generally and certainly the powers of the trotting horse, with the view of 

 practical utility in the business of life, it is deemed well to submit at this point, the 

 Rules (f the Trolling Club at New York. The rules which prevail elsewhere are 

 essentially the same, or so little variant that the diflerence is not deemed wortbv of 

 notice. 



Rules and Regulations adopted by the New York Trotting Club for the Beacon ana 

 Cenlreville Courses. — September 1*7, 1841. 



1. — All Matches or Sweepstakes which shall come off over a Course, under the 

 jurisdiction of tliis Club, will be governed by these Kules, unless the contrary is 

 mutually agreed upon by the ])arties making such match or stake. 



2. — All Purses, Matches, or Sweepstaki^s to which the Club or Proprietors contri- 

 bute, they shall hav(^ the i)ower to ))ost))(ine, should the weather prove unfavourable 

 on the day previously named for the trotting of the same. 



