TROTTING RACES.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 598, 21 March 1876, Page 3

TROTTING RACES.

' Sir,— Too much ttress, 'I think, appears to be 'placed by our tettlerß <Jn tho trbttrng qualitiet of their lionet and not tufheient on a lar mote meful pace, that of quick walking. One day you chronicle the retu It of a trotting race between ' two hack*, and then a projected trottmg match between Vno pairs of ponies, but nona Mam to care to cultivate a quiok walk' which it 'the most 'utefulfcace of all for a general purpote horte, and if one half the attention were paid to cultivating this pact, and brsodmg *!th a view to ltt transmiwon at" is now paid to tho quality of trotting, horset that could walk fife miles an hour would hot be a» scarce as they ore. Every one teeth i to ,b« engaged in gaming trotters, 'from the ploughman in the field to the professional on the track, to the utter neglect of that more uteftil, efery day gait, the walk. Uvan'the importert of draft stallions from Kurope hare caught the infection, and, inttead of bringing thetatt walkart, one hears 'only of th»ir " great trotting act bn." It it time to put an end to thit rionienje; tha gait lor a draught horße it pre-eminently a walk, wkilo nothing addt more to the ability of the roadifer to make a long journey in good time than & walking flait 'thah will nrty him along at a rate of fly* miles an hour. The fittt aim, when a colt 'it broken to harnest, should bo to educate him to a good, I'quarc, fast walk, and after that hat been Sonc, if you get him to trot fast so much the better. It hu been invariably found that the fattett walkers made the fattest trottert. It is it a positire luxnry U> ride or drive a hone that can walk off with you at the rate of five milet an hour. It it such a relief to feel, when you case up your horse from hit twinging trot or lope, that >ou hare not come to a ttand still, but that you imc" l^ 1 " 116 rMpectable P'ogrrt*.— l am, ke, lllktmilton, March IBtb, 1876,