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'out-stepped,' is also highly spoken of. Mr. 

 Wright, of Tring, has a bay, ' Shales,' i6 

 hands, foaled 185 1, with rare action ; and 

 a black i4'2 cob, foaled in 1852, of Mr. 

 Baldwin's has earned a much more worthy 

 mention than we can give him by winning 

 the first hackney stallion prize at the last 

 Norfolk Agricultural Show. Lord Hastings 

 has two hackney stallions of the Fireaway 

 breed, which are occasionally seen in 

 harness." 



A grand example of the Norfolk Hackney 

 at this period was Hazard, a cabriolet horse 

 belonging to Lord Chesterfield. The sym- 

 metrica] shape and bold action of this horse 

 is well shown in the portrait here reproduced. 

 Hazard could trot at the rate of sixteen 

 miles an hour, and when put up for sale at 

 Tattersall's in 1836 was purchased for 330 

 guineas by the Marquis of Abercorn. 



The famous Pastoti Letters contain 

 evidence concerning the trotters which 

 were obtainable in Norfolk in the fifteenth 

 century. Records show that in the seven- 

 teenth century Norfolk had a reputation for 

 its roadsters ; for Marshall, in his Rural 

 Economy of Norfolk, published in 1795, says 

 that before Queen Anne's reign (1702-17 14) 

 the farmers of the country used an active 



