184: GUN, KOD, AND SADDLE. 



misnamed Godolphin Arab was one ; therefore a great 

 many of our horses have Barb blood in their veins, 

 but it is in the minority, the Arab being esteemed the 

 favorite animal, and consequently much more sought 

 after when the foreign cross was deemed advisable for 

 the improvement of our stock. 



In conversing with many Americans on the subject 

 of their crack trotters, and in what sires and families 

 they found this pace better developed, to the English 

 stallions, Messenger and Mambrino, many years since 

 imported into the United States, they gave the cred- 

 it. Now if any one will take the trouble to hunt out 

 their pedigrees, they will find a stronger cross of the 

 Barb (going back as far as the Godolphin and Barb 

 mares) than is usually the case. Another stallion 

 exported from here into Boston (Mass.), and who a 

 long time stood in Long Island, near New York, 

 called Bellfounder, or the Norfolk Trotter, has also 

 produced a numerous progeny celebrated for this 

 pace. Of his pedigree, although I used every en- 

 deavor, I could learn nothing ; however, a friend 

 procured me a print, said to represent him when 

 performing the feat of trotting 1 7J miles in the hour, 

 and never did I see a picture more remarkably rep- 

 resent an animal with the prominent Barb points. 



