786 report — 1884. 



dity, and habits of locomotion peculiar to itself, being so self-persistent as to be 

 conveyed from parents to their progeny with such certainty that the trotter in the 

 near future -will become thoroughbred, with the capability of propagating its own 

 kind continuously and uniformly. 



The result of the authors investigations leads to the conclusion that the consum- 

 mation of this type and new production results from the utilisation and union 

 of the sperm and germ cells of the pure-bred English runner with the germ and 

 sperm potency of the native American horse, and that within the last fifty years 

 this high rate of trotting and pacing speed has been produced progressively and 

 gradually from a locomotion capable of covering a mile in three minutes, to an 

 increase of speed to the mile of two minutes and nine and three-quarter seconds. 



