142 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
fifty-five minutes, and fifty-three seconds. Several 
other horses have done this distance in less than ten 
hours. Fifty miles were trotted at Providence, Rhode 
Island, in 1835, by a horse called Black Joker, in 
three hours and fifty-seven minutes. Several horses 
have trotted twenty miles within an hour, the first to 
do it being Trustee, a half-bred horse. One of the 
few defeats that Flora Temple ever suffered was in a 
match to trot twenty miles within an hour, harnessed 
to a skeleton wagon; “that kind of going on in a 
treadmill sort of way,” as Hiram Woodruff remarks, 
“not being her strong point.” 
An American trotting horse, called Tom Thumb, 
said to resemble a Canadian pony, and owned by Mr. 
Osbaldestone, in England, covered one hundred miles 
in ten hours and seven minutes, the vehicle weighing 
nearly or quite one hundred pounds. An English- 
bred mare was afterward matched to accomplish the 
same task. ‘She was,” according to Youatt, “one of 
those animals rare to be met with, that could do al- 
most anything as a hack, a hunter, or in harness. Ou 
one occasion, after having, in following the hounds 
and travelling to and from cover, gone through at 
least sixty miles of country, she fairly ran away with 
her rider over several ploughed fields. She accom- 
plished the match in ten hours and fourteen minutes. 
... She was a little tired, and, being turned into a 
loose box, lost no time in taking her rest. On the 
following day she was as full of life and spirit as 
ever. This isa match,” Mr. Youatt continues, “which 
it is pleasant to record; for the owner had given 
positive orders to the driver to stop at once on her 
showing decided symptoms of distress, as he valued 
