92 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
horse is the driver; and here we touch upon the 
great difference between running and trotting races. 
A running race may be described, with some exag- 
geration, as a brief but spirited flight of colts ridden 
by boys, whereas a trotting race is a long-drawn 
contest between seasoned horses and mature men, 
who are commonly the trainers as well as the drivers 
of their steeds. Not all running horses, to be sure, 
are colts, nor all their riders boys, but the limit of 
age in the horse and of weight in the man is quickly 
reached. In trotting races the jockeys are always 
men; the standard weight is 150 pounds, and if the 
driver falls below that he must carry lead enough on 
his sulky to make up the deficiency. In running 
races, steeple-chases excepted, the weight (including 
that of the rider) varies, roughly speaking, from 75 
to 130 pounds, and a Fred Archer who tips the scales 
at anything over 120 must retire to private life. 
Then, again, running races, nowadays at least, al- 
most invariably consist of a single dash, whereas 
trotting races are in heats, the best three in five: 
and this affords an opportunity for stratagem and 
patience on the part of the driver; for courage, en- 
durance, and even for recuperation on the part of 
the horse. There is, therefore, in the trotting race, 
an element of subtlety which gives it a peculiar fas- 
cination. The typical driver who has been evolved 
from these conditions is a spare but sinewy man, 
with a quiet manner and a firm mouth, —as distinctly 
American a person as any that can be found. His 
chief qualities, so far as the horse is concerned, are 
sympathy and resolution. “Confidence between the 
trotting horse and his driver,” said the great master 
