200 THE HOKSE. ■ 



Stallions would have been reduced to one-half, and two-thirds of 

 the most wonderful lineages sadly besmirched ; but, as a work 

 on which to place reliance, it would have gained far more than 

 it would have lost in size. 



Publislied by subscription, I presume he was quasi com- 

 pelled to insert such pedigrees as his subscribers chose to foist 

 upon him, under their own, or their great grandfathers' alleged, 

 signatures — otherwise I cannot conceive the admission of the 

 Merry Pintles by Old Merry Pintle, and the Bulle Rocks, going 

 in four crosses to pure Barb or Arab on both sides, and of a hun- 

 dred other horses or mares, of whom, of their sires or their dams 

 there is not a trace — or, if a trace of their parents, such only as 

 proves distinctly that they never had such issue. 



The year 1850 was remarkable for a greac addition to the 

 number of trotting courses, especially in the eastern, and west- 

 ern States, and in Canada, and to the general favor of this manly 

 and useful sport. 



A good many new horses showed as good numerical winners, 

 but none to contest the laurels with the old established cracks ; 

 and this year commenced a practice most absurd, useless and 

 inconvenient, especially when, as is the case in this instance, it 

 occurs with regard to horses of established reputation — that, I 

 mean, of changing the names of trotters, breeding inextricable 

 confusion, and giving ample range for rascality, in getting bets 

 from persons not acquainted with the appearance of the horses. 



Such tricks ought to be at once put down by jockey clubs 

 and associations, and all liorses having established names or.ght 

 to be declared distanced, if winners, in case of their starting 

 under any new names. 



One can scarcely conceive any end, but fraud, in changing 

 the names of such horses as Pelham and Jack Rossiter to 

 Chai-ley Abel and Ike Carnley. It looks amazingly like a 

 scheme for getting odds, out of the green ones, against horses, 

 on which they would have bet, under their own proper appel- 

 lations. 



In this instance, for whatever reason tried, the cock would 

 not fight; for people would not call the horses by their new 

 titles, and they had to return to the old ones. Still, in the Turf 

 Register of the year 1850, both horses stand recorded under both 



