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Horses that pace and trot too. — Not to be trusted on the Coarse.— 

 Trotters that amble off in a Pace when first out of the Stable. — Speed, 

 and 'Its Relation to Stoutness. — The Gray Mare Peerless. — Styles of 

 Going. — Gait of Flora Temple and Ethan Allen. — Bush Messenger's 

 Get. — Vermont Hambletonian's Get. — Influence of Messenger. — Hob- 

 bling in Jogging. 



I LAST spoke of the natural and fast pacers which had 

 afterwards taken to trotting, and made fine horses for the 

 course at that gait. It must be added, that much care and 

 patience are necessary in the treatment and handling of 

 them while they are in the time of transition between the 

 pace and trot and not thorough at either. Some remain all 

 their lives capable of pacing and trotting : and these are 

 useless for the course, by reason of the fact, that, if matched 

 to pace, they may strike a trot, and so lose ; and, if matched 

 to trot, they may fall into a pace, and lose that way. But 

 they are often fine, lasting road-horses, able to go a distance, 

 and to make such fast brushes by pacing that no road-trot- 

 ter can get by them. It was one of this sort that beat the 

 dam of Flatbush Maid on the road ; and it was only by 

 changing the gait that it was done. That mare, the dam 

 of the Maid, was a good one. The horse who got the little 

 bay out of her was a pacer, — a chestnut. I recollect his 

 winning a race here years ago. He had good blood in him, 

 and could trot as weU as pace. The mare was one of the 

 Messenger tribe, — a gray, flea-bitten about the head and 

 neck. 



Besides those who pace and afterwards make reliable 

 trotters, and those who pace sometimes and trot sometimes, 



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