86 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
far to redeem the trotting track from those degrading 
associations with which, one must adiit, it is almost 
always connected. Man may take a lesson from the 
horse, as well as from the dog, in courage, in resolu- 
tion, and in disciphne. It is a noble spirit that ani- 
mates the exhausted trotter, who, obedient to the rein 
and voice of the jockey, expends his last reserve of 
force on the home stretch, and staggers under the 
wire a winner by a head. 
