432 UNGULATA. 



twenty-seven seconds, and in 1856 made the best time on record, two 

 minutes twenty- four and a half seconds, beating Tacony for a stake of 

 one thousand dollars. She won this race in one heat, distancing TTacony, 

 and the time was one second less than ever made before. She was 

 driven by her favorite driver, Hiram Woodruff, who declared after the 

 race that she could beat a locomotive. But the time, both in mile and 

 two-mile races, has gradually been shortening ; we pass over the per- 

 formances of Goldsmith Maid, Rarus, Hopeful, and Lulu, all of whom 

 have accomplished a mile in 2:15 or less, and come at once to the run- 

 ning of this year. At Rochester, Steve Maxwell trotted two miles in 

 four minutes forty-eight and a half seconds, beating by two seconds 

 Flora Temple's best record at that distance ; and both St. Julien and 

 Maud S. trotted a mile in the extraordinary time of * . minutes eleven 

 and three-quarter seconds. And even this has been surpassed, the 

 former being credited with accomplishing the distance in two minutes 

 eleven and a quarter seconds, the latter with covering the same distance 

 in two minutes ten and three-quarter seconds. Such are the results of 

 careful breeding and skilful training, and there seems to be no reason why 

 a mile may not be done in two minutes ten seconds. We must observe 

 that, respecting these times and distances, there can be no dispute, 

 while, in earlier races, the distance traversed was often inaccurately 

 estimated, and the time never given with anything like precision. 



THE NARRAGANSETT PACER. 



This beautiful animal, according to Frank Forester, has entirely 

 ceased to exist. The pace, it may be explained, is a gait in which both 

 legs on one side are raised together ; while in the trot, one of the fore- 

 legs and the opposite hind-leg are lifted at the same time. In the 

 celebrated Elgin marbles from the Parthenon of Athens, two horses are 

 represented as pacing; and in the famous "Horses of St. Mark" at 

 Venice, the attitude is the same. A writer in the middle of the last cen- 

 tury describes Rhode Island as producing fine horses, remarkable for 

 swift pacing, and adds : " I have seen some of them pace a mile in a 

 little more than two minutes, and a great deal less than three." The 

 original genuine Narragansett Pacers are said to pace naturally, but the 

 name soon became applied to all pacers. The most famous of modern 

 pacers was the magnificent mare Pocahontas, an animal described by a 



