130 ORIGINAL SOURCES OF TROTTING BLOOD. 



Mr. Alfred Worcester, the statement that he was employed in the 

 office of Col. Jaques from 1818 until 1836, and distinctly remembered 

 Mr. Boott as a gentleman — a horseman who frequently came to that 

 office and talked with Col. Jaques about importing a horse; and that 

 he remembers the horse, and that all the time he was in possession of 

 Col. Jaques, Mr. Boott appeared as the owner. From this it reasona- 

 bly appears that pursuant to some plan or understanding between 

 Col. Jaques and Mr. Boott, the latter selected and imported the horse^ 

 and caused the cards to be printed in England which accompanied the 

 importation; and further, that both he and Col. Jaques were persuad- 

 ed of the authenticity of the pedigree given, and the other state- 

 ments made concerning the family and performances of Bellfounder, 

 It is further stated that he was by that well-known, fast and high- 

 formed trotter. Old Bellfounder, and that he was a true descendant 

 from the original blood of the Fireaxcays — a breed of horses standing 

 unrivaled for the saddle, either in this or any other nation. The dis- 

 trict of Norfolk has been noted for trotting matches that rival some of 

 our own. In a veterinary work published in 1835, by George Skeav- 

 ington, entitled the " Model Farrier," we have an account of a large 

 number of trotting performances, among others, of a mare called 

 Nonpareil, trotting in a vehicle called a match-cart, one hundred miles 

 in nine hours and fifty-seven seconds. She was owned by Mr. Dixon, 

 of Knightsbridge, and was driven by W. Stacy, of Kingston. Her 

 sire was " Fireaway," owned by Wm. Flanders, of Little Port, Isle 

 of Ely; these places all being in the county of Norfolk or adjacent 

 thereto. The same work speaks of the Fireaways as having better 

 staying qualities than some other of their trotting stock. 



In the old Spirit of the Times, Vol. IX, there appeared an article,, 

 copied from the Ziondon Sunday Times, May, 1839, relating to Mr. 

 Theobald's stud — being a description of his several stallions. The 

 following relates to the 



NORFOLK PHENO^rENON. 



This extraordinary animal was bred by Mr. Wayman, of Lillyput, in the Isle 

 of Ely. He was got by Fireaway, out of a Shields mare, and is reputed to be 

 the fastest trotter that ever stepped. He is known to have performed two 

 miles in five minutes and four seconds, and is also said to have trotted twentj''- 

 four miles an hour. This surpasses the celebrated Phenomenon mare or any 

 performances of the fastest American horses. He has a crest resembling the 

 Godolphin Arabian, is short-legged, but standing over a great length of ground. 

 He is as strong as a buti'alo; indeed, his great muscular delineation, and the 



