184 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Ill the Soutlicrii States, where roads are bad and the travel- 

 ling done mostly upon liorseback, are found horses well adapted 

 to the saddle, the best of which exhibit distinct evidences of 

 their descent from the imported Thoroughbred horse. 



In Pennsylvania and Western New York many large, excel- 

 lent draught horses arc raised which are sometimes called Cones- 

 toga horses. They are usually of a bay or brown color, and 

 their principal faults are a want of spirit and often too much 

 length of leg. 



Many stylish and fast carriage horses are bred in the Middle 

 States, and the greater number of the l)est roadsters used in 

 and about New York City and Philadelphia contain more or 

 less of English or Oriental blood. 



The three foreign horses, whose descendants are now most 

 numerous and celebrated as roadsters, are Grand Bashaw, 

 Trustee, and Messenger. 



Grand Bashaw was an imported barb, among whose progeny 

 are the famous stallions, Young Bashaw, Andrew Jackson, 

 Kemble Jackson, Long Island, Black Hawk, and Jupiter. 



Trustee, an English Thoroughbred horse, was imported iu 

 1835, and was the sire of Fashion, the best racing mare ever 

 bred in this country, and of many other first-class racers. He 

 also got the renowned trotter, Trustee, who performed, without 

 injury to himself, the unparalleled feat of trotting twenty miles 

 in fifty-nine minutes and thirty-five and one-half seconds. He 

 accomplished the entire distance without once breaking his trot, 

 making the last mile in two minutes and fifty-one and a half 

 seconds. This almost incredible match against time occurred 

 on the Union Course, Long Island, October 20, 1848, the driver 

 and sulky weighing two hundred and ninety^five pounds. 



There can be no question that trotting matches, properly 

 conducted, are essential to the most complete development of 

 the breed of roadsters. 



The actual excellence of a stallion for getting roadsters, can 

 be determined only by careful training and driving; and with- 

 out these trials of stock horses, the tendency would be to 

 encourage those of a round, smooth, showy form, and beautiful 

 action, but deficient in that vigor of constitution and perfection 

 of nerve and muscle which cliaracterize the horse of the highest 

 speed and the greatest endurance. It is not recommended by 



