148 ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 



and 2 :32, which was not again equaled until 1854, when this record wx 

 covered by Tacony. 



In 1844 Cayuga Chief made the first half mile in a race in 1 :15, the 

 fastest yet made in public ; and Fanny Jenks accomplished 100 miles, in 

 harness, in 9 hours 38 minutes 34 seconds. The slowest mile was done 

 in 6 :25 and the fastest in 4 :47. At the end of the race this mare wa« 

 driven an extra mile in 4 : 23. 



In 1849 Lady Suffolk trotted 19 times and won 12, beating Grey Eagle* 

 and Mac twice, Pelham five times. Lady Sutton twice. Trustee four times ; 

 also beat Black Hawk, Gray Trouble, Plumbay and other horses. This 

 year a Canadian mare, Fly, is said to have been driven from Cornwall to 

 Montreal, ninety miles, in 8 hours and 15 minutes. Fanny Jenks mad© 

 100 miles in 9 hours 38 minutes and 34 seconds. Fanny Murray trotted 

 one hundred miles in 9 hours 41 minutes 23 seconds. 



In 1852 Tacony won 12 races, beating all the best horses of the day> 

 making a single mile in 2 ;26 ; two miles in 5 :02, and was beaten only 

 twice. As a 3 year Ethan Allen trotted this year in 3 :20. Flora Tem- 

 ple this year won her first purse, on the regular turf, in 2 :41. 



In 1853 the entire sporting interest was centered in Flora Temple and 

 Tacony. Flora this year beat all the best horses of the day, winning 

 seventeen times. Her best time at mile heats was 2 :27, 2 :28, and at it 

 mile heats 5 :01 1-2, 4 :59. This year Tacony trotted a mile in 2 :25 1-2. 



In 1856 the contest lay principally between Flora Tempte and Lancet, 

 Flora made 11 races, winning nine, beating Lancet four times in harness, 

 and Tacony three times in harness, Tacony going under the saddle. This 

 year Flora Temple lowered the one mile record to 2 : 24 1-2. 



That the trotting horse of America owes his great powers to the infu- 

 sion of thorough blood, we have before stated. To Imported Messen* 

 ger is this due in the greatest degree. Messenger's sire was Mambrino,. 

 his second sire Engineer, and his third sire Samson. Thence to Blaze, 

 Flying Childers and the Darley Arabian. Samson is reported to have 

 been coarse and homely, and Engineer rough and coarse, but both of these 

 horses were of extraordinary substance. 



Another great trotting sire of America was imported Bellfouuder. 

 There has been much controversy over his breeding, first and last, but 

 that he was a staunch trotter, and a getter of admirable horses, there is 

 no doubt, giving splendid action to his get. Still, it must be admitted 

 that, admirable as was Bellfounder himself, his get was not equal to the 

 descendants of Messenger in all that constitutes speed, endurance and 

 action. 



Durac also became a valuable factor in our trotting blood. His strain 

 of blood appears in the Medley's, Durac Messenger's, Mambrino Chief's 

 *iid Gold Dust's. 



