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NATURAL HISTORY. 



about by the care of Mr. Darley. The offspring of the Arabian thus introduced was the Devonshire, 

 or Flying Childers, the fleetest Horse of his time, which ran four miles, one furlong, and a hundred 

 and thirty-eight yards in seven minutes and a half. Descended from the same Arabian was Eclipse, 

 who never met an opponent sufficiently fleet to test his powers. He became the sire of three hundred 

 and thirty-four winners ; while King Herod, a descendant of the same stock, was the sire of no less 

 than four hundred and ninety-seven winners. The former of these Horses died in 1789, at the age 

 of seventy-five years, after realising for his owner a princely fortune : his skeleton is now preserved in 

 the museum at Oxford. The English Race-Horse, in swiftness and energy, elegance and grace, 



ENGLISH RACE-HORSE. 



surpasses his Arabian progenitor ; and is so superior to other European breeds, that it is tisual on 

 the English course to allow foreign Horses an advantage in the weight that they carry. All 

 English Race-Horses are descended either from Arabian or Barb sires. 



THE TROTTING HORSE OP AMERICA. Two nations have the credit of introducing a race of 

 Horses known as the Trotting Horse. One of these is Russia, the other the United States ; and the 

 latter has so far excelled her rival, that the Trotting Horse is now generally known as the " Trotting 

 Horse of America." The Russian breed is Arabian on a Flemish stock, and is known as the Orloff 

 Trotter; but from the bending of the knee when the Horse is striding, and the trotting action 

 not being carefully looked after, the animal is considered by good judges to be only " half-developed." 

 The breed of the American Trotter seems to have been both Barb and Arabian on an English stock, 

 the well-known Bashaw Trotters being descended from an imported Barb ancestor, the Grand Bashaw ; 

 and Top Gallant was produced by a union of Arab or Eastern breed, with some Horse either English 

 or of English origin. One of the greatest American trainers of the Trotting Horse, Hiram Woodruff, 

 says in his work on this subject that the English had the stock all along, as much as the Americans, 



