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the chief of thofe horfes which I have known 

 to excel in this way. It is but juft, that they 

 fhould inherit their fair portion of that cele- 

 brity, which the page of equeftrian annals 

 confers on their elder brethren of the turf. 



The renowned Blank, may be looked upon 

 as the father of trotters, fince from his baftard 

 fon, Old Shields, or Scott, the trotting ftallion, 

 have proceeded the beft, and the greateft 

 number of horfes of that qualification: and to 

 Shields and Ufeful Cub, the Ifle of Ely, Cam- 

 bridgefhire and Norfolk, are in a great meafure 

 indebted for their fame, in the production of 

 capital hacknies. Cub was got by a black 

 cart-hoife, out of a chapman's mare; ofcourfe 

 his trotting (lock have run too much upon 

 the round moulder and buttock, and have 

 been more remarkable for their fpeed, than 

 floutnefs. 



The fafteft trotter, as I have good reafon to 

 fuppofe, w T hich has ever been tried in England, 

 was called Archer, from the name of the 

 perfon who brought him to London; and 

 from his having been bred in Norfolk, it is 

 probable he was of the family of Old Shields. 

 He was a bay gelding, full fifteen hands high, 

 and mailer of fifteen done. Being the pro- 

 perty of Marfden, the dealer, who alio pofTefled 

 the old one eyed black gelding, at that time 

 iiippofed to be the fpeedieft trotter in England, 



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