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high courage and emulation, which, every horseman knows, 

 will spur a wel'-bied animal to die, rather than to give in — 

 without great pr;i-ent distress of the creature, great risk of its 

 dying in the trial — anil, in nine cases out often, its serious and 

 permanent injury and deterioration, even if it win the match, 

 and appear to win without distress." 



" Nine times out of ten such matches are made up by the 

 lowest of the low, and the object is solely to win money." 



It has been demonstrated at a fearful expense of suffering, 

 and the trial ought never to be repeat ed, that a horse can trot ten 

 miles inside of thirty minutes, twenty miles inside of an hour, 

 fifty miles inside of four hours, and one hundred miles inside 

 of nine hours. 



A single mile has been run in one minute forty-two and a 

 half s'conds by the American racer, Henry Perritt ; paced in 

 two minutes seventeen and a half seconds by Pocahontas ; and 

 trotted in two minutes nineteen and three-quarters seconds by 

 Flora Temple. 



The most celebrated of all the Blood horses which have been 

 progenitors of fine roadsters in this country, is imported Mes- 

 senger, who is generally conceded to have been the best stock 

 horse ever brought to America. He died in New York in 1808, 

 and, though by no means a model horse himself, he was the 

 getter of a vast number of famous running and trotting horses. 

 He was a son of Mambrino, who was one of the most superb 

 horses ever known. He is described as a gray horse, with a 

 large, bony head, a short, straight neck, low withers, and upright 

 shoulders, while his windpipe and nostrils were very large, and 

 his logs, barrel, loins, hips, and quarters, absolutely faultless. 



Among his descendants were the trotting stallions, Mambrino, 

 Hambletonian, Messenger, Abdallah, and Engineer, and the 

 renowned Lady Suffolk, who was for fourteen years queen of 

 the trotting course. 



Lady Suffolk was got by a great-grandson out of a great- 

 granddaughter of imported Messenger, and was foaled in 1833, 

 on Long Island. She was on the trotting course sixteen years, 

 and won eighty-eight matches out of one hundred and sixty- 

 one trotted, earning the sum of 1^35,000. 



So excellent have the Messenger horses proved in the various 

 branches of Messenger, Abdallah and Hambletonian, that more 

 than eighty of the horses entered for exhibition at Springfield in 



