ROAD HORSES, 141 
“The day was hot, and it was a sandy country, 
which made it hard wheeling. I left Drummondville 
at two o’clock, and he pulled me by the bit all the way 
to Moscow. When I got there the sun was quite high. 
I then reined him for Sorrell, fifteen miles beyond, 
and the last three miles were through a sandy pine 
wood. Here he commenced to rave so much that I 
was obliged to get out of the buggy at two different 
times, and hold him by the bit until I rested my arms. 
So much for Joe Renock, after driving him ninety 
miles. 
“T rubbed him dry, and he was in the stable before 
sunset. I hitched him up the next morning, and he 
went up to the bit every rod of the sixty miles, the 
balance of my journey, and did his last with as much 
ease as any mile in the trip.” ? 
Like most other great horses, Joe Renock derived 
his energy and strength largely from his dam, who is 
thus described by the Vermont farmer who owned 
her: “She was a blocky fifteen-hand dark brown or 
black mare with white strip and one white hind foot, 
full of pluck and nerve. No better mare ever trod 
the green hills of Vermont. I have driven her for 
hundreds of miles, and followed her for days on the 
farm. I have known her to be taken up from the 
pasture and driven seventy miles in a day, and it did 
not take her all day to do it.” Joe Renock, foaled 
at Poultney, Vermont, about the year 1857, was this 
mare’s last colt, she being then twenty years of age. 
The shortest time for one hundred miles is that 
made by Conqueror, harnessed to a sulky, at Centre- 
ville, Long Island, in 1853, which was eight hours, 
1 See also page 200 for an instance of good roading. 
