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Horses that pace and trot too. — Not to be trusted on the Course.— 

 Trotters that amble otT in a Pace when first out of the Stable. — Speed, 

 and its Relation to Stoutness. — The Gray Mare Peerless. — Styles of 

 Going. — Gait of Flora Temple and Ethan Allen. — Bush Messepgcr'a 

 Get. — Vermont Hambletoniau's Get. — lullueuce of Messenger. — Hob 

 bling in Joggmg. 



I LAST spoke of the natural and fast pacers winch had 

 afterwards taken to trotting, and made line horses for the 

 course at that gait. It must be added, that much care and 

 patience are necessary in the treatment and handling of 

 them while they are in the time of transition between the 

 pace and trot and not thorough at either. Some remain all 

 their lives capable of pacing and trotting : and these are 

 useless for the course, by reason of the fact, that, if matched 

 to pace, they may strike a trot, and so lose ; and, if matched 

 to trot, they may fall into a pace, and lose that way. But 

 they are often fine, lasting road-horses, able to go a distance, 

 and to make such fast brushes by pacing that no road-trot- 

 ter can get by them. It was one of this sort that beat the 

 dam of FLatbush Maid on the road ; and it was only by 

 changing tlie gait that it was done. That mare, the dara 

 of the Maid, was a good one. The liorse who got tlie little 

 bay out of lier was a pacer, — a cliestnut. I recollect his 

 winning a race here years ago. He had good blood in him, 

 and could trot as well as pace. Tlie mare was one of tlie 

 J^Iessenger tribe, — a gray, flea-bitten about the head and 

 neck. 



Besides tliose who pace and afterwards make reliable 

 trotters, and those who pace sometimes and trot sometimes, 



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