16S GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. 



tlic hour ; and tliat, after much investigation, I have 

 been unable to tind a single instance recorded of any- 

 thing like similiar rates of speed having been made 

 by any of our home-bred animals. However, it would 

 be better to state before going further, that there are 

 plenty of thorough-bred horses in America; but 

 it must be remembered that they are all sprung from 

 stock imported from this country, and that they ai*o 

 totally distinct from the family of trotters, although of 

 kite years the appearance of the latter has been much 

 improved by judicious crossing the two, — in fact, so 

 much so, that some of the late crack trotters have 

 quite a racy look, one in particular. Lady Thorne, 

 who, if lier appearance does not speak falsely, would 

 make no contemptible figure on the turf or across 

 country; yet from all my experience and inquiries I 

 have been unable to hear of a trotting debutante 

 of pure breeding, nor do I believe such exists. 



Some Americans I have heard avow that it was the 

 result of training, and that Englishmen did not under- 

 stand the art of teaching ahorse how to make such 

 use of his legs, so as to obtain the greatest amount 

 of trotting speed ; and that they felt confident, tliat 

 had they but the opportunity, they could select out 

 of our pastures numerous youngstci's, who, in course 



