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a good deal the highest. The soil that would suit me 

 best for a training track would be a sandy loam, free 

 from stones and gravel. 



PUPIL. Wait till you visit the glorious West, when I 

 will show you the soil, of all others, best adapted for a 

 track. I will defer my description of it till we come to 

 making the track on the place where I am turning the 

 thorough-bred into trotters. The slight antipathy you 

 have to the experiment, I hope will be done away with 

 as you become better acquainted with these colts and 

 their performances before the summer is ended. This 

 filly is by Endorser, dam by Boston. She ran very cred- 

 itably when two years old, and has now just been broken 

 to harness. She shows a trotting step that is a good deal 

 like the one described in the old English song : 



" Come, I ride as good a trotting horse as any in the town, 

 Trot you sixteen miles within the hour, I'll lay you fifty pounds, 

 He gathers up his knees so smart, and tucks his haunches in," &c. 



She is as handsome as Delle, and has the advantage of 

 being a color that is much more showy. It is rare in- 

 deed, common as chestnut horses are, to find one of this 

 bright golden color that looks like sun-painting, the gor- 

 geous day-beams absorbed and reflected from the silken 

 hair. The two white hind legs, and the broad stripe run- 

 ning so truly down the face, relieve and make the brilliant 

 color still more to be admired. 



Before leaving home I was showing her to a friend, 

 who takes great delight in driving the finest and fastest 

 trotters, and, by the way, is the one who gave me the 

 cigars you pronounce so good, remarking to him what 

 he would consider her worth if she could trot in " thirty." 

 His answer was, if he owned her, and she could trot in 

 that time, or a little faster, there was no man in the United 

 States rich enough to buy her. He had often argued with 

 me on the uselessness of the race horse, but he had to 



