152 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
cided in about the same time that it takes to kill the 
speedy Reynard of the present day. 
The time may come when the universal horse for 
harness or for saddle will be a thoroughbred. “ 'Thor- 
oughbreds,” says one writer in the Badminton volume 
on Racing, “are the best for all kinds of work, except 
of course that of heavy draught horses,” and thorough- 
bred mares have been used for ploughing on at least 
one farm in England. The thoroughbred horse is not 
necessarily a long-legged greyhound kind of beast. 
Even at this day, though not so commonly as when 
the process of developing a racing machine from 
Eastern stock began, thoroughbreds are found with 
comparatively short legs, well rounded bodies, necks 
inclined to arch, and in general not devoid of those 
graceful curves which, in the modern racer, have 
mainly been supplanted by straight lines. Such a 
thoroughbred is Mr. Burdett-Coutts’s hunter sire, True- 
fit; such also is the well known American horse, Duke 
of Magenta; and such was Glencoe, one of the most 
beautiful horses ever imported to this country.? 
In this neighborhood most men who ride own but 
one saddle horse, and commonly their stud begins and 
ends with him. He should be, therefore, an all-round 
horse, fit to carry his master from a suburban home to 
the city, and to do this day after day on hard roads, 
He should also be ready at all times for a spin across 
country, —a fast trotter, a fairly good jumper, and, 
1 Glencoe was foaled in 1831, and imported in 1837. He was 
by Sultan: dam, Trampoline by Tramp; second dam, Web by 
Waxey. Many trotters, including Jay-Eye-See with a record of 
2.10, trace to Glencoe through their dams. His thoroughbred son, 
Rifleman, is the sire of Colonel Lewis, whose record is 2.183. 
