368 AGRICULTURE AND THE HORSE. 



perament calm, collected, fearless, defiant, and a brain 

 quick to learn, and strong to remember. This was the 

 horse I wanted ; and I felt sure I could breed him. 



This horse, and the way in which he is to be obtained, 

 has been so well described elsewhere (and I think, Mr. 

 Chairman, you will recognize the description), that I 

 venture to quote the passage from memory ; and I have 

 read it so often, that I think my memory cannot fail to 

 recall it : — 



" The American trotting-horse " — and this means the 

 American horse of all work — "is an animal after his 

 own kind, and, I venture to say, unequalled by any 

 other horse on the face of the earth in all that makes 

 such an animal truly valuable in every kind of service. 

 It takes true equine genius to make a trotting-horse. 

 His mechanism must be as well balanced and sym- 

 metrical as a locomotive. Propelled as he is by one 

 quarter at a time, his progress is the result of nerve and 

 strength and decision, unknown and utterly ignored in 

 that leaping, bounding motion, where one end follows 

 the other, as is the case with the running-horse of 

 the English turf He must be solid in his foot, 

 strong in his limb, firm in his back, free and easy 

 in his stride, and, above all things, calm and collected 

 amidst all the trials of the track and the road, 

 which tend to throw him off his balance, and reduce 

 him to the level of the hare and the fox and the 

 greyhound, and the English race-horse, running helter- 

 skelter in a natural manner, without the exercise of 



