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Hiatogas, Blue Bulls, Columbuses and Young Bashaws — which 

 cannot be omitted from any list of the original trotting fami- 

 lies of America. It is the province of the trotting and pacing 

 registers and year books to record the pedigrees and perform- 

 ances of the progeny of these famous sires. 



Trotting for Blood. When a horse is trotting hard 

 and square, often against odds, he is said to be " trotting for 

 blood ; " to trot on merit. 



The ringer has, in a few instances, by giving up blood money, appar- 

 ently escaped, for a time, the vigilance of the legal authorities. — 

 Wallace's Monthly. 



Trotting- Instinct. By animal instinct is understood 

 the propensity of producing effects which appear to be those of 

 reason and knowledge, because they apparently transcend the 

 general intelligence or experience of the creature. Hence the 

 term trotting instinct is held to mean the instinctive propensity 

 of the colt to trot ; the sum of all inherited qualities ; the trot- 

 ting bred colt trots because he represents the accumulated trot- 

 ting instinct of many former generations of trotters. The term 

 was first used in American turf literature in lsS72. 



The sedate brvite on the road does not care wliether another horse 

 passes him or not; he hears a carriage behind him— it does not 

 disturb him; he sees it pass him — it does not annoy him. Not so 

 Avith the racer, or the roadster ■which may share his blood. He 

 hears another wagon beliind him— he is immediately interested: 

 he sees it turn out to go by— he is more interested— lie objects, and 

 says, as plainly as horse can say, "No, you don't!" His ancestors 

 have been bred for so many generations to get ahead and keep 

 ahead, that it is with him an instinct, an innate passion born 

 with him. an inherited part of his constitution, to not only go 

 fast, but to go faster than his competitor.— rrof. W. H, Brewer, 

 Yale University. 



Trueing the Gait. The art of training the trotter in 

 order to overcome any erratic gait or unbalanced action; to 

 teach a horse to trot true and square. 



Trustee. The first horse in America to trot twenty 



miles inside of one hour. " The incomparable Trustee," says 



Henry William Herbert in his "Horse of America." By 



imported Trustee, (imported into the United States in 1835), 



by Catton ; dam, Fanny Pullen, foaled about 1835, bred by 



Sullivan Pullen, Augusta, Maine ; by Winthrop Messenger, by 



imported Messenger. His celebrated race took place over the 



famous old Union Course, L. I., N. Y., Friday, October 20, 



1848. In this race he hauled a driver weighing 145 pounds in 



a sulky weighing 150 pounds. Time: 59:35^. 



The odds at starting were 100 to 40. Tl>e word "go" was given so 

 vehemently tliat the liorse broke, but he caught his step and never 

 broke again tlirouahout the whole iierformance. In trotting the 

 ninth and tenth miles, the liorse tell off a few seconds, and many 

 persons thought tliat he was tiring; bnt judges remarked, as he 

 passed the stand, that he was going perfectly at ease with ears 



