THE HACKNEY. 



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she did in 53 minutes." Bellfounder (p. 569), who was 

 able to trot 17 miles in an hour with 14 stone up, was a 

 Norfolk trotter that did much to establish the hereditary 

 gift^of trotting in American horses. At the time of'Bell- 





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founder, match trotters were saddle, not harness horses. 

 With improvements in roads, later on, the Hackney was 

 also used in harness, and he was then a riding and driving 

 horse of high merit, from a useful point of view, and 

 somewhat similar in type to the horse shown in Fig. 455, 



