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ington, Vandal, Australian, Yorkshire, 

 Bonnie Scotland, &c., possess a physical 

 organization suited to the continuance of 

 great effort at speed, which, if once con- 

 verted successfully to the trotting action, 

 would give us horses of power and capa- 

 city surpassing any present demonstra- 

 tion. Many breeders contend that this Failures and 



anticipations. 



has been tried and cannot be accom- 

 plished, because there is an opposing 

 nature in the thorough-bred, fixed and 

 established by continuous breeding, that 

 annuls the less established inheritance of 

 the trotter, and fails to yield to it. Mani- 

 festly, past experience mainly, almost en- 

 tirely, confirms that view. But as a more 

 established inheritance is effected in the 

 trotter, a stronger power contends with 

 the action of the thorough -bred, and the 



