THE HORSE. Sg 



In 1831, Chancellor, a grey gelding-, ridden by a small boy, performed 3-2 miles on 

 the Hunting Park Course, Pa., in 1 hour, 58m. 31s. The last mile, to save a bet, 

 was trotted in 3m. 7s. 



In October of tlie same year, George Woodruff drove TVhahhone on the same 

 Course, the same distance in 1 hour, 53m. 5s. He cnmmenced the match in a light 

 sulkey, which broke down on the 14th mile, and was replaced by one much heavier. 

 This Course is tilty feet more than a mile in the saddle track, and much more than 

 that in the harness track. 



On the 11th of September, 1R39, Mr. iVIcMann's bay mare. Empress, on the Beacon 

 Course, in a match against time, $600 a side, performed in harness 33 miles in 1 

 hour, 53m. 55s. 



The American horse Rattler was ridden by Mr. Osbaldistone in England, in a 

 match against Driver, 34 miles in 2 hours, 18m. 56s. — Mr. Osbaldistone rode 125 

 lbs. ; Rattler was 15,t hands high. 



In July, 1335, Black Juke was driven in a match against time, on the Course at 

 Providence, R. I., 50 miles in 3 hours, 57s. 



A gray roadster is reported to have performed the same distance on the Hunt-ng 

 Park Course, Pa., in 3 hours, 40m. It was a private match. 



A grey mare, Mischief, by Mount Holly, out of a Messenger mare, 8 years old, in 

 July, 1837, performed aboid 84 i miles in 8 hours, 30m. in harness, on the road from 

 Jersey City to Philadelphia. The owner would not allow a whip to be used. The 

 day was excessively warm, and the mare lost her match (to perform 90 miles in 10 

 hours) through the stupidity of a groom who dashed a pail of water over her with a 

 view of cooling her. 



Tom Thumb, before mentioned, performed on 2d February, 1829, on Sunbury 

 Common, England, 100 miles in 10 hours, 7m. in harness. He was driven by 

 William Haggerty (weighing over 140 lbs.) in a match-cart weighing 108 lbs. This 

 performance, so extraordinary, demands more than a passing notice, and we accord- 

 ngly abridge from an English paper the following description: 



Tom Thumb was brought from beyond the Missouri, and is reported to have been 

 an Indian pony, caught wild and tamed. Others again, allowing him to have been thus 

 domesticated, think him to have been not the full-bred wild horse of the Western 

 prairies, but to have had some cross of higher and purer blood. Eut too little is 

 laiown of his breeding, saving his western origin, to justify any satisfactory specu- 

 lation. 



His height was 14^ hands, and his appearance, when standing still, rough and 

 uncouth. From his birth, he had never been shorn of a hair. He was an animal of 

 remarkable hardihood, a hearty feeder, and though accustomed to rough usage, was 

 free from vice, playful and good-tempered. He was eleven years old when he per- 

 formed his match, and had never had a day's illness. At full speed his action was 

 particularly beautiful — be threw his fore-legs well out, and brought up his quarters 

 in good style ; he trotted square, though rather wide behind, and low. He was driven 

 without a bearing rein, which is going out of use in England, and simply with a 

 snaffle-bit and martingale. He pulled extremely hard — bis head being, in conse- 

 quence, well up and close to his neck, and his mouth wide open. He did his work 

 with great ease to himself, and at 11 miles the hour, seemed to be only playing, 

 while horses accompanying laboured hard. 



The whole time allowed for refreshments during his great performance, amounted to 

 but 37 minutes, includinsr taking out and putting to the cart, taking off and puttincr "n 

 the harness, feeding, rubbing down and stalling. The day before and the dnv after the 

 match, he walked full twenty miles. His jockey provided himself with a whip, but 

 made no use of it in driving him; a slight kick on the hind-quarters was quite suffi- 

 cient to increase his speed when necessary. 



In February, 1823, a pair of horses trotted against time 100 miles on the Jamaica 

 turnpike, on Long Island, and won in 11 hours, 51m. 



But in June, 1834, a pair of horses belonging to Mr. Theal, trotted that distance in 



harness on the Centreville Course, within 10 hours, and immediately after Mr. 1? 



offered to bet $5500 that he would produce a pair of horses that could trot 110 miles 

 in harness within the same time ! — The bet was taken, but afterwards abandoned by 



