GO STALLIONS. 



in the market, there can be but one opinion. It is unquestionably 

 the class of fast trotting horses, and in support of this assertion, I 

 have only to saj, that there are at this moment, within four miles 

 of Boston, three horses, whose respective prices are three thousand, 

 five thousand, and seven thousand dollars. I refer to the " Black 

 Hawk Maid," " Know Nothing," and " Ethan Allen," all of which 

 are colts of the Vermont " Black Hawk," and take him for all in 

 all, the world never produced his equal. He has proved himself 

 the horse of horses, the neplus ultra of the equine race. Breeders 

 who are raising colts of his get, out of sound, fast, well formed and 

 good blooded mares, may rest assured that they have animals of no 

 ordinary value. 



We are now living in the age of steam and electricity. It is 

 emphatically a fast age. The days of slow coaches are past and 

 gone, and the stubborn man who still persists in driving his own 

 slow team, is left to experience chagrin and mortification, when he 

 finds himself distanced and doubly distanced by the fast nags that 

 shoot in ahead of him. There is most unquestionably a growing 

 demand throughout the country, by all classes, for elegant and fleet 

 horses. Time was when the demand came only from the fancy, 

 and sporting circles, but it is not so now. It is no uncommon thing 

 for merchants and professional men in our large cities to pay a 

 thousand dollars for a horse, and the demand is more than equal to 

 the supply, even at such prices. ' 



Years ago, when railroads were first going into operation, we 

 were told that there would be no more call for roadsters. But from 

 that time to the present, no man has ever seen the day when the 

 supply of fleet roadsters was equal to the demand. Unlike almost 

 every thing else, a good horse can always find a purchaser. The 

 saying that " a good horse will always sell," has become proverbial. 

 And I candidly believe that if a Horse Breeders Joint Stock Com- 

 pany should be organized, with a capital of one hundred thousand 

 dollars, and managed by skillful and experienced breeders, it could 

 be made to declare in a few years larger dividends than any cotton 

 or woolen manufactory in the country, with the same amount of 

 capital. 



I have been informed by the owner of " Black Hawk," that he 

 has for several years received annually for the services of that horse 

 upwards of twenty-five hundred dollars, which would be the interest 



