TO TITE HORSE. 



Hill, where he commenced pnrcliasing and shipping, until all 

 the good ones were sent off. He never let a good one escape 

 him. This, and the fact that they were not so well adapted for 

 draft as other horses, was the cause of their being neglected, and 

 I believe the breed is now extinct in this section. 



" My father described the motion of this horse as differing 

 from others, in that its back bone moved through the air in a 

 straight line, without inclining the rider from side to side, as 

 the common racker or pacer of the present day. Hence it was 

 very easy ; and, being of great power and endurance, they would 

 perform a journey of one hundred miles a day, without injury 

 to themselves or rider. 



" Those kept for family use were never used in harness, 

 drafting stiffened their limbs. In the revolutionary war, trot- 

 ting horses became more valuable for teaming than pacers, and 

 would sell better in market, and could be easier matched. Af- 

 ter the war, trotters were more valuable for transportation, and 

 the raising of pacing horses consequently ceased. Only a few 

 of the country gentlemen kept them for their own use. In the 

 year 1800, there was only one living. 



'' An aged lady, now living in Narragansett, in 1791, rode one 

 of these pacers, on a ladies' side saddle, the first day to Plainfield, 

 30 miles, the next day to Hartford, 40, staid there two days, 

 then rode to New Haven, 40, from thence to New London 40, 

 and then home to Narragansett, 40 miles more. She says she 

 experienced no sensible fatigue. 



" Horses and the mode of travelling, like every thing else, 

 have undergone the change of fashion." 



The latter reasons, I presume, assigned for the extinction of 

 this breed, are probably the nearest to the truth ; for one would 

 imagine that, how great soever the Spanish demand, and how- 

 ever large the prices the agent might be willing to pay, there 

 would be some persons of sufiicient foresight to retain animals 

 enough to support a breed, which must naturally have become 

 the more valuable, the greater the demand for it. 



The fact seems to be, that, up to the beginning of the pre- 

 sent century in this country, much as it was lialf a century yet 

 farther back in England, the roads were so bad, as to be, except 

 in the finest weather, wholly impracticable for wheel cairiages; 



