122 THE AMERICAN TROTTING HORSE. 



ance has commenced to lend its powerful aid in transmitting 

 what was originally a spontaneous effusion. 



The rapid stride that trotting horse breeding has taken may 

 be imagined from the fact that thirty-five years ago Yermont 

 Black Hawk with three trotters in the 2.30 list was the cham- 

 pion trotting sire of the world.' "When nineteen years old, 

 Ethan Allen, with four. in the list, was the champion trotting 

 sire, while now we have five-year-old stallions with more in 

 the list. 



There can be no great national success in the breeding of 

 horses, beyond profitable home consumption, until such breed- 

 ing shall be demanded by other civilized people for stock and 

 breeding purposes ; consequently, we should aim to create and 

 establish a truly " American Trotting Horse " of value from its 

 blood qualities for export. 



So universal is the fancy for fast driving horses that at 

 almost all our fairs and horse shows the roadster class will be 

 found to be more largely represented than any other, and 

 usually more so than all other classes combined. The time is 

 fast approaching when the American Trotting Horse will be 

 classed as a distinct breed, the creation of an American fancy, 

 just as the thoroughbred running horse was a creation of the 

 English. 



To the student of breeding, who revels in tracing the in- 

 fluence of the fusion of blood elements, there is not a more 

 curious, amusing, and instructive study than the history of the 

 American Trotting Horse of the period. 



Being created out of vastly divergent blood elements, 

 bringing with them widely different characteristics and 

 talents, and also suffering under conflicting theories of 

 breeding, the American Trotter emerges to-day, an almost dis- 

 tinct breed, differing from all others, no matter what their 

 nationality, chiefly in the perpetuating of the qualities and the 

 height of bis development. The result is, indeed, wonderful, 

 considering the various sources that have been utilized, the 

 foundation stock of which was undoubtedly well advanced 



