. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1891 £&t gmte and gyuixtsmm. 489 Blood Will Tell. DariDg the past decade, and especially the last half of it' ae development of speed in the trotting horse has been smarkable. America is the home of the trotter, and the evelopment of that strain of horses hss been accomplished Imoet solely in this country. While our breeders have paid jnoh attention to thoronghbred rnnners, and have pro- need many magrjiticent animals, some of which have carried ff great prizes on the tracks of England and France, it is â ith the trotter that the most woudeifnl results hav
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1891 £&t gmte and gyuixtsmm. 489 Blood Will Tell. DariDg the past decade, and especially the last half of it' ae development of speed in the trotting horse has been smarkable. America is the home of the trotter, and the evelopment of that strain of horses hss been accomplished Imoet solely in this country. While our breeders have paid jnoh attention to thoronghbred rnnners, and have pro- need many magrjiticent animals, some of which have carried ff great prizes on the tracks of England and France, it is â ith the trotter that the most woudeifnl results have been btained by careful breeding and trainiDg. While the records f rnnning horses have been lowered very Blowly and but ttle at a time, the trotiiog records have come tumbling down Imost yearly. Thirty-Sve years ago no horse had trotted in 2:20 nd now the number of horses with reoords as low as that is pwards of 400. While this result is in a measure due to uproved tracks and better conditions for fast going is true, , is none the less the fact that it is chiefly due to those laws :f nature by which characteristics that have been trained and ,eveloped in one generation are transmitted in increased atural faculties and powers t3 the nest. There is scarcely a man of middle age who does not remem- er the time when ' 2:40 on a plank road1' was the synonym n the highest rate of speed, yet its Bigni6cance has long been 'ist and its common nee abandoned. Of late years no record as been sufficiently phenomenal nor remained unbroken '>ng enough to furnish a popnlar expression to take the place f that long-used phrase. The first horse to trot under 2:30 â as Lady Suffolk, in 1S45, yet to-day. including the per- jrmances of the present season, there are upwards of 5,000 orses that have reached that class. The record was suc- sssively lowered by Pelham, Highland Maid and Flora 'emple, until the latter lowering it in 1859 for the fifth time, assed the 2:20 mark aDd made a mile in 2
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