Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-09-12

proves it beyond peradyeture. For, although
some ho scs, not perfectly thoroughbred, have
run well themselves both for speed and endu-
IA nee, none such have been the sres and grand
sres of distinguished winners. The power,
therefore OF transmitting high qualities by here
ditary descent, may be held to prove the posses
sion Of pure blood in the sire. The pedigree Of
American Eclipse cannot be absolutely proved
that is to say. there is doubt in his pedigree,
bni no proof o a siam in hi, blood-yet no one
in his senses, looking TO his own performances
and the performances of his get, can doubt his
being as thoroughbred as his English namesaSe,
TO whom he Is supposed to have been connected
on the mothers side.
1t IS evident then, in the first place, that the
original stock of the unmproveG American horse
is the result of mixture of breeds the French,
the Spanish, the Flemish, and the English horses
having all sent their representatives TO some por-
ton or other Of the United States and British
Provinces and probably still prevailing to con-
siderable degree in some locations, though no
where wholly unmixed. while, in others, they
have been so thoroughly mixed AID amalgamat-
ed. that their identity Is no longer dlscoverablc.
In New York, it appears that the early i'm
portations Of thorough blood, and the consan;
sup ,ort of horse-racing, have so changed the
original Dutch or Flemish stock, that the char
race. with strong cross of good blood In Mas
acbuse,ts Nermont. and the Eastern States zen.
orally the Cleveland Raw and n cross between
tha, and tb. Euulsb drav-horse blood with some
small ,dm,xture ot thurouoh strain. predomi
rat,.s. In pennsylvauia. the most distinct breed
appears to he Of Flemish and English dray-horse
origin. In Maryland. Virginia, and South Caro-
Ina. English thorough blood prevail to a great
extent so mpch so as to render the inferior
,lass,.s n,' WORKING horses weedy and understood
/, Inui.iana. and many of The Western States.
French and Snanish blood is nrevalent in part.
,Loucb ,y,,b . ,ur. of an Fngl;sb st,a,n.-
Rnt ,,.,srall, If may b. ,ssuned that. with the
evceft;on ~, tho thor.u,hhrnds ,here is scarcely
,nv b,cod in any mart 0f America entirely uure
and n,nixed and that ,iere are very few ami
mol. an,, ,,L,re yh;ol, Lsyo M, som. m; m;xtnre
,,r.,,or =, las or,he ho, hloo1 of IN. desert,
,r,r.m;,,.J ,hrougb the Englisb race-horse.
T., tac, ,,;,h ,bo sxco,,;on If tho Conestooa
Lorsa ,b.ro H. ~ ,ho Tn,,od Sa a,ns no nur.lv
Lrad draf, nv oar, hor.e n,r anv bre.d which Is
ban, on,;r.I, for 6sld or road l,h,r without a
,;ar ~ h.;,,., ,s,d n, ,;mns fnr cu;cker work
al g.. ,.,,.nos.s =, ,l.,s,,o nv ,ravel Tho
s,n,o horso ,rh;,.h ,Ion,hs or b,r,ows today ;s
L,,,,..a ,,. .,,,,,-i,, -, ,L. s,lL, or tho Jersev
,ya.,o,, ,r ,ho olJ.c,sbi,reJ Nnw 'Fnoland chase
w. n,.., 1'r sadTos and .xnn rcd n maks
,,l.r.Ll, Inn. bv tho owner Nor athoucb
,Io,.I,nl RI and S,,I,lt n,nches of the i'm.
.I t.i ra''' i'',, ;,,,nr,.,d ,r,o NJ ,.sa.
i'hnso,. and i'.f ,h.r .nafk M the bnrs.s of the
ra.,..rn =, ,,..s ,o, horses ,r.d ,hsrs ,,;th.
I,',t ,hn an'h;,;on 70 ,rnIn,s son,tbing b.yotd
.',r. i,a.,., aii,;,;, ., d,,w b,..vv load
,..,.s ,.,,. ,h,. ,,.a oI ox.n " ,;,.b * almost
".,;na1' aLanIa,.J ~ En,l,nJ snnnlyin, The
,I,', /, ,ha I,n;,,d S,ates nj mere ,seiyh,-h -haul
=; .,' 49, ;,,oodaJ ~ ho in .nr,s s..nsr
~ ,J :, = h,,, f;r ~ cav ,b,, for do
,;,.' , "''' a,,n1,'oss of oors,;,r,ion endu.
,,n,,. If fatione snre(ootednes.. and speed. the
An,er;can roadster is no, to be- excelled. II ,oun
o1 bv a,v horse in the known world not purely
,horo,ch-hrn
or roadste,s. two or three families have OBJ
tanned in different loralities d ,cided and prob-
,blv msr;ted renntatons tor different peculiar
u,alues sucb as the Narrauansctt PAGERS. tho
t,ril;es known az the Norc,n and Black Hawk.
The CANADIANS. and generally what NAV be call.
.d ,ro,t.rs
"a on.. of these bowcver II NAV he asserted
,y,,h ,br s;n,,la ,xr.,n,on or the Narraoansetts
.,,,.,rs ~ h,,y. anv r.,l claim to he held a dis
,;nc,;y, family mr. "a he REGARDED as can,ble of
.r,nsuuttpo its Qualities in line of hereditary
d.s,.nt bv hre.d;nr within itselc. without farth-
nr crosses with higher and hotter blood.
OF the Narracanset,s II ia extremely difficult
N sncak for ,het. is reason TO believe that as
a distinct variety. with natural mowers of pacing
,h.y arc extpc,. and their ORIGIN is in some
s,,r; my,b,caI and uncerta;n.
Thn cther families il il clear owe their merits
~ n remo,c strain nf thoronch. blood nerhans
amounting IN one.f mrtb or one.tbird mart. some
throo mr. fnnr generations hack
g L. III Il. = L.i.. L..l - 49,