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has ever been performed by a horfe, in the 

 walking way. 



The true trot is performed with a quick 

 and ftraight forward motion, and a bended 

 knee. The horfe which points out his fore- 

 legs, and goes with his knee ftraight, is no 

 trotter, whatever the old jockies may have faid 

 of their pointing trotters ; they lofe time by 

 overftriding : nor are fuch ufually good hacks. 

 But it matters not how far a trotter fteps for- 

 ward, provided his knee be fufficiently bent. 

 Some trot too fhort, and taking up their feet 

 rapidly, appear to fet them down almoft in 

 the fame place. Thefe are commonly bone- 

 fetters ; but I have known, now and then, one 

 of them, perform fifteen miles in one hour. 

 The utmoft fpeed of an Englifh trotter (and I 

 have reafon to believe they excel all others) 

 is a mile in about two minutes, fifty-feven 

 feconds. Sixteen miles in one hour, has been 

 trotted fufficiently often, and with high weights; 

 in my opinion, eighteen is upon the trotting 

 cards. Perhaps ten miles might be performed in 

 half an hour. The ftory of a gentleman's horfe 

 in Billiter-fquare, which trotted thirty miles in 

 lefs than an hour and a half, to be found in 

 Bewicke's Quadrupeds, and in other publi- 

 cations, is, no doubt, the account of a capital 

 performance, upon paper ; but it is nonfenfe 



elfewhere. 



