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De Curnieu reports the case of a mare of three-quarters blood which travelled 

 a distance of 24 kilometres per hour for 3 hours. 



The same author gives the account of Schaklari Amdan, an Arabian stallion, 

 which came, it is said, to Alep, from a distance of 600 kilometres, in 40 hours, 

 27 hours of actual travelling. 



One of the most severe performances that have ever, perhaps, been recorded 

 conscientiously is that of Sharper, which may be read in volume iii. p. 151 of the 

 English "Stud- Book." This horse had to travel at St. Petersburg, on August 4, 

 1825, a distance of 75 versts (80,100 metres), a little more than 20 leagues, 

 against Cossack horses from the Don, the Black Sea, and the Ural. He alone 

 finished the race in 2 hours and 48 minutes! And yet the horses he ran against 

 were famous competitors. 



Verny, a Russian trotter of which we have already spoken, won, in 1879, a 

 famous race against an English horse ; harnessed to a carriage, and mounted by 

 two persons, he made the distance from Paris to Rouen, 128 kilometres, in 9 

 hours and 5 minutes. His competitor died on the road ; he himself, from want 

 of care, died the next day. 



Youatt relates that a hackney-horse travelled the enormous distance from 

 London to York that is to say, 196 miles (more than 315 kilometres) in 40 

 hours and 33 minutes. 



He relates, also, that a man, in 1827, made a small Hungarian horse travel 

 the distance of 95 miles (more than 152 kilometres) while keeping up with ths 

 Limerick stage. 



Another man is said to have started at the same time as the Exeter mail- 

 coach, upon a Galloway horse 1.40 metres high, and to have reached Exeter a 

 quarter of an hour before the mail, having travelled 172 miles (more than 276 

 kilometres) at a rate of more than 7 miles (1 1 kilometres, 263 metres) an hour. 



A Galloway horse also travelled, in 1754, 100 miles a day (160 kilometres, 

 900 metres) for three consecutive days. (Youatt.) 



It was also a Galloway horse which accomplished, at Carlisle, the extraordi- 

 nary feat of going 1000 miles (1609 kilometres, or 402 leagues) in 1000 hours (41 

 days and 16 hours). (Youatt.) 



Finally, recently M. Prieur de la Comble, left Luneville on the 3d of 

 April, 1882, upon a Hungarian mare, the Mascotte, and reached Paris three days 

 after, having gone over 388 kilometres, which is the distance between the two 

 cities, in 72 hours. Our friend, M. Bizard, who knew this mare, assured us that 

 her owner could certainly have made the distance in 50 hours if he had wished 

 to do so, the Mascotte sustaining with the greatest ease periods of trotting of 30 

 to 40 kilometres. 



These instances are sufficient to show what feats the horse is capable of per- 

 forming when he is endowed with those incomparable qualities which constitute 

 endurance. But, however marvellous these examples may be, they do not equal 

 those which man, as & pedestrian by profession, has already given. 



The weekly journal, The Field, which is published every Saturday at Lon : 

 don, and which is an authority on such matters, has given us the three following 

 facts : 



1st. Mr. Robert Vint, of American origin, accomplished, in 1881, a journey 

 of 578 miles and 605 yards (about 930 kilometres, 721 metres) m 144 consecu- 

 tive hours, that is to say, in 6 days. * 



