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runners and the Norfolk trotters (see chart, p. 120). 

 Bellfounder was a bright bay with black mane, tail and 

 legs. He stood about 15 hands high and was a natural 

 trotter. It is stated that he was very fleet, trotting 17 

 miles in an hour. Velocity, his dam, was also a noted 

 trotter, and is said to have trotted 16 miles in an hour 

 on the Norwich road in 1806. 



Influence of American horses. — In the early colonial 

 days, most of the traveling was done on horseback, and 



FIG. 71.— STANDARDBRED STALLION "BRETINI," 2.2214 



conditions were favorable to developing horses of hardi- 

 ness and endurance. Thus we have the Narragansett 

 pacers developed largely in Rhode Island ; the Canadian 

 pacers in Canada ; the Morgans in Vermont ; the Pilots, 

 which were taken to Kentucky, and many other noted 

 strains, all of which played a very important part in the 

 establishment of the Standardbred. 



Hambletonian lo. — Perhaps no horse of any breed or 

 period in this or any other country has excited an Interest 

 so universal or represented such a vast sum of money in 



