88 THE TROTTING-HORSE OF AMERICA. 



fatQOBS race on the Union Course. There were five heuts; 

 and the time was 2.26^, 2.26i, 2.29, 2.28f, 2.29. Five 

 heats all inside of 2.30 was no common performance. The 

 stallion finally won it, which was a proof of his staying 

 p iwers. 



To conclude with the different ways trotting-horses have 

 of beginning, it will be as well to mention, that I have 

 known some who hobbled off at first as if they were lame. 

 I could name some who would have been pronounced lame, 

 when led out with a halter or driven at a slow jog, by 

 almost any horseman, but were, nevertheless, perfectly 

 sound, and only required to be suffered to go along at a 

 good gait to establish the fact. I have known one or two 

 very famous trotters that went as if they were lame all 

 round when jogging slow. I have heard of running-horses 

 of whom the same was said. The Queen of Trumps, a 

 famous English mare by yelocipede out of Princess Eoyal, 

 had this peculiarity. I am told, that, when she was saddled 

 for the Oaks, any man who did not know of it would have 

 made oath that she was lame on all-fours. But she won 

 the race with ease, and afterwards carried off the St. Leger 

 " in a walk," as our friends over the water say. A. J. 

 Minor, the able and clever gentleman who trained for Mr. 

 Ten Broeck in England, and now has charge of Kentucky 

 and JVCr. Hunter's horses, tells a good story about that 

 saying. A horse called Tom something, — I forgot what, — 

 ran a race for a cup aj; a country meeting, and, with a very 

 large allowance of steel and whalebone at the finish, got 

 the award in his favor by half a head. Minor says he had 

 about a hundred stripes in the last fifty strides. As he was 

 being led off to the stable, some of the trainer's friends, 

 who had not seen the race, met them, and cried out, " How 

 about t' race for t' coop ? " — " Oh, the cup ! " says the 

 trainer, swinging his hat in the air, " why, old Tom won in 

 a wolk.'' 



I have found some horses that were not lame, but went 



