1 82 THE HORSE: ITS TAMING, 



shearing time, to keep one in tucker. I'd be obliged 

 for a bit of 'baccy. The rations ain't due till to- 

 morrow, and I'm clean run out. Thank'ee, sir." 



AMERICAN TROTTERS. 



Trotting horses in the United States have been 

 very carefully bred for some years past, and their 

 speed has been greatly developed. There are now- 

 more than iioo trotting horses which have made or 

 beaten a mile in 2 minutes 30 seconds, and 91 of them 

 have a record of 2 minutes 20 seconds ; and also the 

 increase of speed of late years in them. 



I learn that the first noted trotter on the American turf 

 was "Lady Suffolk," and after the gallant little grey 

 marecame anotherofhersex," Flora Temple," the "bob- 

 tail nag " of song, and that was the first trotter to beat 

 2.20. Her record of 2.19^ stood until " Dexter," the 

 brown son of " Hambletonian," trotted the Buffalo 

 track in 2.171^, and was sold to Mr. Robert Bonner 

 for 33,000 dollars. Then came in quick succession 

 " Goldsmith Maid," 2.14;" Rarus," 2. 1 3 1^; ; " St. Julian," 

 2A\%; "Jay-eye-see," 2.10; and "Maud S.," 2.8^, 

 the ideal trotter — the culmination of the efforts of 

 American breeders to beat the world in the produc- 

 tion of fast trotters. She is the best type of the 



