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(Beal's 768), foaled in 1843 ; Denmark (Bourdas' 177), foaled in 

 1862 ; Danegelt (174), foaled in 1879, and died in 1894. During 

 the past fifty years the blood of Denmark and Danegelt has been 

 most potent in Hackney history. Perhaps the five sires of most 

 importance in the last quarter of the nineteenth century were 

 Lord Derby 2d, Bourdas' Denmark, Triffitt's Fireaway, D'Oyley's 

 Confidence, and Danegelt. 



Speed and endurance have always been important Hackney 

 characteristics. Driver (187) is said to have trotted 17 miles in 

 one hour, while Fireaway (201), old advertisements state, made 

 2 miles on the road in 5 minutes. The Norfolk Cob is said to have 

 trotted 24 miles in one hour. The famous mare Phenomena, in 

 June, 1800, at twelve years of age, trotted 17 miles on the Hunt- 

 ingdon road in 56 minutes, and again in July in less than 53 

 minutes. In 1811, when twenty-three years of age, she trotted 

 9 miles in 28 minutes 30 seconds. The Hackney in early days 

 was ridden to the saddle and so carried loads, often of weight 

 approximating 200 pounds. During hot July weather, John A. 

 Logan, Jr., drove a pair of Hackney mares, hitched to a two- 

 seated buckboard, 94 miles in two days along the Hudson 

 River and made the last 23 miles in i hour and 53 minutes. 



The Hackney in America dates back to 1822, when James 

 Booth, of Boston, imported from Liverpool, Bellfounder (55) 

 (Jary's), commonly known as Imported Bellfounder. He was 

 sired by Bellfounder (52), with Pretender (596) for grandsire, and 

 out of a mare named Velocity. The Bellfounders proved ani- 

 mals of great speed and endurance, tracing back from the 

 original Fireaways. Bellfounder was the sire of the Kent mare, 

 the dam of Hambletonian 10. The great speed in the Ham- 

 bletonian family of trotters may justly be regarded as tracing 

 through the Bellfounder lineage. 



It is believed that the Hudson Bay Company imported to 

 Canada in 1830 an English Hackney named Fireaway, but for 

 years no importations of this breed other than these two came 

 to America, and they were not brought over as Hackneys. In 

 1 88 1 M. H. Cochrane of Hillhurst, Canada, brought an impor- 

 tation to Canada from England, having among others a fine 

 stallion named Fordham, by Denmark 177. The first Hackney 



