The Horse Tribe 



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most illustrious is Stockwell, 

 who lias been desevibed as the 

 most extraordinary sire of all 

 time, whose blood is coming 

 more than ever to the front. 



The Trottixg-horse. 



This is an American lireed. 

 The trotting-horse is a com- 

 bination of barb and Arab 

 on an English stock. ]\Iost 

 of the trotting- and pacing- 

 horses of America may be 

 traced to an English thorough- 

 bred — ^Messenger — who was 

 imported into America in 1780. 

 This horse became the founder 

 of the greatest trotting family 

 in the world. The speed 

 attained by some of the 

 fastest trotters is wonderful, 

 a mile being covered in some 

 three or four seconds over two 

 minutes. 



Iiussia is the only Euro- 

 pean country with a distinct 

 breed of trotter — the Okloff. 

 the native races. The Orloff 

 has not the speed of the 

 American horse, but has 

 greater powers of endurance. 

 The trotting-season in Eussia 

 is winter, the races taking 

 place on the ice. 



The Pacer is not a 

 distinct breed, but so called 

 on account of its curious 

 method of trotting. In 

 trotting the left fore and 

 right hind leaf strike the 

 ground at the same moment; 

 in pacing the fore and hind 

 leg of the same side move in 

 unison. Some wild animals 

 — as the giraffe — are pacers. 

 " ]\Iany American horses," says 

 JMr. Winans, "are able to 

 move with either action, a 

 set of lighter shoes often 

 sufficing to convert a trotter 

 into a pacer." Pacing is 

 a swifter mode of motion 



Photo by 1 1 aW] 



These liuuies belunj 



SHETLAND rOXY AND FO.iL. 



tu Lady Mary Uui)e and her sister, who have Ijeeii veiy successful iu 

 breediug them. 



This breed was made by crossing Arab and English horses with 



rhoto b,j T. Fo-U\ 



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CHAMPION SHIRE STALLION. 

 One of Sir Walter Gilbey'3 celebrated cart-1 



