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fast-trotting chestnut horse Doubtful, the property of Mr. 

 King of Wymondham, for 50 guineas, which was decided in 

 favor of Mr. Jary's mare. The distance they trotted within 

 the time was fifteen miles and a half, and Mr. Jary's mare 

 had to turn round sixteen times on account of galloping, 

 while the horse did not turn round once. 



Returning to Scot Shales, it would be mani- 

 festly improper to omit some account of his 

 famous son Hue and Cry. Of this horse John 

 Lawrence in the Sporting Magazine of June, 

 1821, says: 



I saw him several times while he was advertised as a cover- 

 ing stallion, upwards of twenty years. He was then fifteen 

 or sixteen years old, perhaps 15 hands one-half high, a bright 

 bay with some white, a good figure, and master of sixteen 

 stone. * * * Of his performances I know nothing very 

 particular, but that he was one of the speediest trotters of 

 his day, whence his name, from the hue and cry he raised 

 whilst dashing along the road with a posse of horses gallop- 

 ing on each side and behind him. He was a horse of rare 

 temper and courage, a true trotter, and got good stock. He 

 trotted the mile considerably under three minutes, carrying 

 a high weight, and trotted the hour several times, but I am 

 uninformed of the number of miles. When I saw him his 

 fore feet were entirely ruined, the result of having had, some 

 years previously, his shoes fitted whilst red hot. It is a curi- 

 ous circumstance that in the annals of racing no notice is to 

 be found of trotters. I could never trace the commencement 

 of trotting as a race, nor the notice of any trotting stallion 

 before Shales. There seems to have been a succession of 

 trotting stallions of the name of Shales since that period in 

 Lincolnshire and Norfolk, the most famous districts in the 

 world for trotters, beyond a doubt. 



Through Scot Shales the Hackney breed gets 

 another one of its most distinguished repre- 



