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ADDRESS OF MR. LORING. 



standard of a milking cow. He cannot find that in this 

 country — he must go abroad for it. So also of animals 

 for beef, work, &c. There are better breeds of cattle 

 in England and Scotland than there are in our own 

 country — with the exception of those imported by us, 

 or descended directly from our importations. 



Now, this is not the case with regard to our horses. 

 The American Trotting Horse is an animal after his own 

 kind, and I venture to say unequalled by any horse on 

 the face of the earth, in all that makes such an animal 

 truly valuable for all kinds of work. It takes true 

 equine genius to make a trotting horse. His mechanism 

 must be as well balanced and as symmetrical as a loco- 

 motive. Propelled as he is by one quarter at a time, 

 iiis progress is the result of nerve and strength and 

 decision, unknown and utterly ignored in that leaping 

 bounding motion where one end follows the other, as is 

 the case with the running horse of the English turf. 

 He must be solid in his foot, strong in his limb, firm in 

 his back, free and easy in his stride, and, above all 

 things, calm and collected amidst all those trials of the 

 track and the road, which tend to throw him off his 

 balance, and reduce him to the level of the haro and the 

 fox and the grey-hound and the English race-horse, 

 running helter-skelter in a natural manner, without the 

 exercise of any faculties, except those with which 

 nature endows the coward when he flies from danger 

 or conflict. The American trotter requires bones and 

 muscles and brains. And when he stands high in the 

 list, he has them all. For compactness of form and 

 ease of motion, for strength, endurance and sagacity, he 

 is unequalled. 



