140 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
especially as a charger. Colonel Lovelace, an English 
officer, a veteran of the Crimea, who rode Joe Renock 
on one occasion, declared him to be the most perfect 
saddle horse that he had ever seen. But it is for his 
roadster qualities chiefly that I cite him here. Mz. 
John Harkness, an old horseman, and, as I am in- 
formed on good authority, a truthful man gives the 
following account. ? 
“Qn one occasion I drove this stallion ninety miles 
in one day, under adverse circumstances, which I will 
relate. I started with him on a journey of a hundred 
and fifty miles. It was on the first day of August, 
1869. Joe Renock carried about one hundred pounds 
of surplus flesh, and was hitched to a phaeton top 
buggy, holding my wife and myself. I calculated to 
make the journey in three days. I left home at six 
o’clock in the morning and drove to Drummondville, 
a distance of about fifty miles. I landed in Drum- 
mondville at noon of the same day. I am wrong in 
saying that I drove him. I should say he pulled me 
every inch of the way. He would not pull to fight 
his driver, but he would go right up on the bit, and 
keep his driver busy all the time. 
“T put him up, intending to stop for the night at 
Drummondville. After he cooled off, I took him out 
and groomed him.- After I got through with my job, 
T led him out by the halter, and he played around me 
like a squirrel. My wife stood on the veranda and 
remarked, ‘ He feels well after his drive.’ I told her 
to get ready, and we would drive to a place called Mos- 
cow, about twenty-five miles farther, as I did not like 
to stay at Drummondville. 
1 In the American Horse Breeder of April 22, 1892. 
