THE SECRET OF THE TROTTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1946, 25 December 1884, Page 4

THE SECRET OF THE TROTTER.

An tint fragile but indestructible entity, the trotting record, is constantly broken anil restored again, the minds of all sensible tmf men are tinned to examine tI)P qualities in a horse that enable so many animals to do it. In the first place, it cm 't depend on sex. The first record below 2. 'JO belonged to a mire, Flora Temple. Heis was bioken by an animal of the male persuasion, Dexter. Then another mare, Goldsmith M.ud, ] smashed his recoid, and this in turn was knocked into a cocked hat by another male named K.nus. RartiV record wa-> broken by St Julien, a simiLu animal ; fc>fc. Julien's again by one of the other sort, Maud S ; and then, after the honour was a second time won by the maie, it wastiken once mote upon the shoulik-is of the stciner se\, that is, on J iv-Kyo See's shoulders, only to be immediately transferred back to Maud's There for the piesont it promis.es to remain, until J.iy-Eye-See finds a more congenial track and trots faster than he yet Ins. Hoists don't bieak recoids because they are of any pirticnlar age. Goldsmith Maid did it when she was sixteen or thereabouts, and Jay-Eye See and Miuil S both did it when they were six. The other lecord bie.ik.ers were all of intermediate ages. Neither is it on account of size, colour. 01 shape, llarus is bay, Devter hi own, Maud S. chestnut, and Jay- Bye-See black. Partis is 16 hands high, and the others settle gradually down until one comes to Floia Temple, and she was lefas than 15. Rams i». known as the long-backed horse. Jay-Eye See is latlier compact. In tin's shoit lrt of ieroid bnakeis there ate long \<i r s. ,ir 1 .shot., lo^o, long tails and .shnifc uiis. or, in Flora Temple's case, baldly any tail ; also, all sorts of gaits, dispositions and peculiarities of temper. There is good bleeding, bad bleeding, and what might be called no breeding at all. No one of these hoiscs could be called like the otheis, though they weie all tiottois, and that's wheie the secret lies. Taking all the^-c ficts into consideration, thetefore, we feel justified in saying that the ability to bieak lecoids, oi to tiot faster than other hoiscs, depend wholly upon the possession of a combination of supeiior speed and bottom. That'" all.— New York Sun.