THE EQUESTRIAN ART. 23 1 



and are the leafl liable to be (hook by the 

 hard road, in a canter. 



It is unneceffary to fay much of the gallop, 

 in this place, it not being a pace calculated for 

 road fervice. Common road hacks generally 

 gallop too high, befides leaving their quarters 

 too far behind them; fome of them, neverthe- 

 lefs, free from thofe defecls, have run twenty 

 miles in one hour. 



Having fome fmall pretentions, as a trotting- 

 jockey, the liberal reader will, I truft, grant me 

 permiffion to mount my hobbv, and dilate 

 awhile upon my favourite pace. No argu- 

 ments need be expended, in proving the trot 

 to be the moll ufeful of all the paces; the 

 fuperior price of thofe horfes, which excel at 

 it, (landing in good ftead. Faft-trotting too, is 

 equally contributory to fport, as to bufinefs, 

 and affords the amateur, or him who rides only 

 for exercife fake, every day opportunities of 

 gratification, which cannot fo conveniently, or 

 frequently be obtained, upon the turf. 



I am ignorant how long it has been the 

 fafhion to cultivate this pace, fince trotting 

 matches have never been admitted into our 

 racing annals, and all authors are filent upon 

 the fubjecl:; but fuppofe it be a natural conco- 

 mitant of our improvement in the breed of 

 Horfes. Our mixed breed, or chapmens' 

 horfes, are bed calculated to excel in this way/ 



Q 4 Perhaps 



