JjaO • THE HOKSE. 



First, the ch. g. Trustee Senior and Spangle trotted twenty 

 miles ; the winner in Ih. 5m. 59s. ; the loser in Ih. 6m. ^s. 



Then the same horse, Spangle, was backed to do iiftj miles 

 in four hours, wagon and driver to weigh 400 lbs. which he 

 won, doing tlie distance in 3h, 59ra. 14s. 



One month after this, the same horses. Trustee Senior, and 

 Spangle, went ten miles, as before, to wagons, which was done 

 a little over the half hour, in 30m. 29^s. 



On the 24th of May, with a fatuity inconceivable, if only 

 in a pecuniary view, with so valuable an animal at stake. Flora 

 Temple was started to do twenty miles within the hour. What 

 follows I quote from the Turf Register of the year ; — " In the 

 eighth round she cast a shoe, and cut herself rather severely, and 

 from this out her speed began to decrease, until the close of the 

 twelfth mile, when her backers, seeing she had not a chance, 

 withdrew her and gave up the match ! " 



This needs no comment. The agony of the wounded animal, 

 whose speed began to decrease from the moment of the mutila- 

 tion, had no effect on the flinty hearts of the backers, until they 

 saw that she had not a chance. K she had had a chance, on she 

 must have gone. If she could have won, she would have been 

 made to win — lame or sound — live or die ! Though one 

 would have thought that Flora Temple's life, if insured against 

 such wanton risks as this, was worth more than five thousand 

 dollars. 



A few days after this, July 12th, Lady Fulton was backed to 

 perform the same match, and won it, doing the twenty miles in 

 69m. 55s. 



This mare and Ti-ustee, the son of thoroughbred Trustee and 

 Fanny Pullen — who must not be confounded with the Trustee 

 Senior, mentioned above, also, I believe, by the same sire — are 

 the only two animals who have accomplished this prodigious 

 effort. 



It ought never, again, to be attempted. It is a mere matter 

 of i^hysical endurance. A mere trial of what a horse can do 

 witliout dying. There are hundreds of horses who can do the 

 pace for a distance, and who will stay the distance as long 

 as they can, and that their owners know. The only question is 

 what distance can they stay, without death ensuing. It is enough 



