170 GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. 



the thorough-bred, who are much in the minority in 

 numbers) owe their origin to different sources, that 

 trotting is a national characteristic of the one, gal- 

 loping or cantering of the other, and the more I 

 have seen of the two races the more thoroughly am 

 I convinced that such is the case. In Kentucky, 

 when visiting the farm of an extensive breeder, and 

 who has bred and owned some of the most celebra- 

 ted race and trotting horses in that State, I inspected 

 both his droves of young ones, the race-horses and 

 the trotters (for both families are kept separate and 

 distinct), and was very much struck with the marked 

 difference in their appearance ; the latter being heavy 

 chested, large limbed, small headed with tapering 

 muzzle, while the tail was generally set on very low. 

 However, if they differed in appearance, in man- 

 ner and habit they were more essentially unlike: 

 when you alarmed the thorough-bred s, off they went 

 at a swinging gallop; if the trotters, their favorite 

 pace would be chosen, and in few instances, how- 

 ever much you might coerce them to increase their 

 speed, could they be induced to break, and it 

 must be borne in mind that the majority had not 

 yet passed into the breaker's hands, so that their 

 action was natural. 



