BKEEDIKG OF TKOTTEES. 30i 



as amenable then in proportion as she is now, we will 

 certainly have one trotter in the string. 



PEECEPTOE. Unless you have your heart set on a won- 

 derful rate of speed, I think you will be gratified by the 

 possession of more than one trotter. There may be as 

 much profit and pleasure in a horse that can safely trot in 

 thirty, as one that goes eight or ten seconds less. With 

 the very fast horse there are only occasional opportunities 

 of trotting him in races, while others can be trotted as 

 often as we desire. From the greater number of second- 

 rate horses, there is no trouble in making up fields, and 

 the best races running and trotting are generality those 

 which this class figure in. No further business appearing 

 for the morning consideration, we will take up our line of 

 march for the house. 



We will resume a subject that has been dropped for 

 some time, the Breeding of Trotters. Without being as 

 enthusiastic as you, in all that pertains to their conception 

 and rearing, I am, nevertheless, greatly interested in it. 

 In former talks I have trod on your corns by underrating 

 " the advantage of racing-blood in trotters," till I am sorry 

 to see that you have become very sensitive whenever the 

 subject is broached. I must confess that I have carried 

 my objections further then I intended. My predilections 

 being strongly in favor of blood, I was induced to follow 

 this course, the better to arrive at a candid consideration 

 of the drawbacks, as well as the advantages, of breeding 

 road horses from the source purified in the alembic of the 

 race course. Throwing aside, as far as lies in our power, 

 all predisposition for or against the thoroughbreds, we may 

 derive benefit from further deliberation; though I had 

 forgotten, when proposing this, that you had promised the 

 denouement of your adventure with the crazy Doctor, and 

 will be gratified to listen to it. Our time after dinner will 

 only give us space enough to consume a cigar, as I want 



