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would in tliis country be used on the road or the trottiug-course, 

 are there employed in the hunting field — to the fact; that trot- 

 ting rules, trotting-training, and trotting-riding, or driving, are 

 all, in England, imperfect, injudicious and inferior ; and lastly 

 to the fact, that the animals used as trotters, themselves of in- 

 ferior quality, are almost entirely in the hands of persons of in- 

 ferior means and equal character, that must be ascribed the in- 

 feriority of the English trotter ; no such distinction being dis- 

 coverable against the English hunter, carriage-horse, cavalry 

 horse, riding-hack, or race-liorse. 



And it is to the great popularity of trotting in this country, 

 to the great excellence of tlie trotting-trainers, drivers and ri- 

 ders, arising from that popularity, and to the employment of all 

 the very best half and three-quarter-part bred horses in the land 

 for trotting purposes — ^none being diverted from that use for the 

 hunting field, or park-riding — that we must ascribe the wonder- 

 ful superiority of the American roadster. 



It may be added, that this view of the subject is confirmed 

 by the fact, that in the Southern and South-western States, 

 where the persons of wealth and horse-owners are, for the most 

 part, agriculturists and rural proprietors, rather than dwellers in 

 cities, many of them owners of race-horses, and most of them 

 more or less addicted to fox-hunting or deer hunting, trotting has 

 never taken root to any thing like the extent it has to the North 

 and Eastward ; and that, on the contrary, where trotting pre- 

 vails, it is as diflicult to procure a handsome, well-broken and 

 well-bitted galloper, with stylish action, a good turn of speed, and 

 able to stay a distance under a weight, as it is easy to find an 

 undeniable trotter, of equal appearance and performance, that 

 shall go his mile low down in the thirties, or his fifteen miles in 

 the hour, on a square trot. 



The efiect of all this, as I have said, probably not a little the 

 result of the very mixture of breeds, has been to produce in 

 America a general horse for all purposes, omitting only the 

 hunting-field and park, or parade-ground — for which there is no 

 demand — that cannot, I think, be equalled in the world. 



On my first arrival in this country, when the eye is more 

 awake to distinctions, than after it has become used by years of 

 acquaintance to what it has daily before it, and forgetful of what 



