160 THE llOKSE. 



into which the rising generation of the present day is sinking, 

 as if into a sty, softer and louthlier than that of Epicurus. 



But to resume, for this is not tlie place for such bootless 

 retrospection, a remarkable match against time was made that 

 year, by a horse never trained, " Black Joke," driven by a man 

 weighing 175 lbs., his owner, apart from the weight of his 

 WMgon, to do fifty miles in four hours in harness. This he 

 accomplished easily, with three minutes to spare, not in the 

 least distressed, doing the first 12 miles in one hour, the second 



12 miles in 1 hour, the third 13 miles in 1 hour, the fourth 



13 miles in 57 minutes. He stopped three times to be sponged 

 and to catch his wind, but it is worthy of remark, that he kept 

 gaining on time, the more, the farther he went against it. One 

 could hardly esteem the driving judicious, although it proved 

 successful. 



In August, Fire King and Modesty made mile heats in 

 2.43 ; 2.41 ; 2.39 ; which is recorded as good, it being considered 

 that, at whatever age, they carried 145 lbs. 



Samson and Rattler made two-mile heats in 5.38 ; 5.48 ; 

 5.99; nothing farther worthy of record occurring in the rest of 

 that season, except that Modesty crowned the year by doing two 

 miles under the saddle in 5.25 ; 5.19 ; 5.21, the best as yet on 

 record. 



The year 1836 was remarkable for the appearance of two 

 very remarkable animals, one of which in his own time, and in 

 all time at long distances, has never been surpassed, I mean 

 Dutchman and Awful. 



Than these animals, which were for a time rivals and com- 

 petitors, no two creatures could be more dissimilar, either in 

 shape, action, style of going, general show, or blood. 



That they both were — as cannot be denied — although in very 

 different degrees, exceedincrl}^ superior trotters, goes far to prove 

 that, whatever may be the case with race-horses, trotters can 

 come of all sort of stocks, and go in all sort of forms. 



Dutchman was seen somewhere or other in Pennsylvania, 

 by Mr. Peter G. Barker, rampling clay in a brickyard, nothing 

 whatever being known of his pedigree. What Mr. Barker 

 could have seen, or heard about the horse, is not easily imagin- 



