16S GUN, BOD, AND SADDLE. 



the hour ; and that, after much investigation, I have 

 been unable to find a single instance recorded of any 

 tiling like similiar rates of speed having been made 

 by any of our home-bred animals. However, it would 

 be better to state before going further, that there are 

 plenty of thorough-bred horses in America; but 

 it must be remembered that they are all sprung from 

 stock imported from this country, and that they are 

 totally distinct from the family of trotters, although of 

 late years the appearance of the latter has been much 

 improved by judicious crossing the two, in fact, so 

 much so, that some of the late crack trotters have 

 quite a racy look, one in particular, Lady Thorne, 

 who, if her appearance does not speak falsely, would 

 make no contemptible figure on the turf or across 

 country ; yet from all my experience and inquiries I 

 have been unable to hear of a trotting debutante 

 of pure breeding, nor do I believe such exists. 



Some Americans I have heard avow that it was the 

 result of training, and that Englishmen did not under- 

 stand the art of teaching ahorse how to make such 

 use of his legs, so as to obtain the greatest amount 

 of trotting speed ; and that they felt confident, that 

 had they but the opportunity, they could select out 

 of our pastures numerous youngsters, who, in course 



