Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — The Cause of the Excellence of Our Trotters. [ARTICLE]

The Cause of the Excellence of Our Trotters.

London Field. The excellence of trotters descended from Messenger, to sire to whom almost all the American trotters trace their pedigree,' is sometimes, attributed to tbe fact that this famous sire bad iu him a stroug cross of Barb, as distinguished from Arab blood. The D irley Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian—whose blood appears in all the best, English racehorses of the laStcentpry —were in reality Barbs, and no Arabians; they came from Barbary and Africa, and not from Arabia and Asia. Bai bary is rough, stoney, hilly, inter-, sected with ravines, and covered la, many places with prickly bushes. 1 The districts of Asia in which the purest Arab horses are bred present, on the other hand, flat or slightly undulating surfaces, with scanty vegetation, while for the most part they are carpeted with thick layers of sand. In Africa the horse, being unable to gallop with safety, accustomed himselX to a trot, as being the safest and easiest way under the circumstances, and tie adoption of this action forces him to bend the knee and to develope the muscles which are thus brought into play. In other words, Barb horses trot, while Abrabiau horses gollop, because nature imposes upon each the necessity of adapting their action to the ground in the midst of which they are severally torn. The Presbyterian Bynod, composed of delegates from presbyteries in the adjoining parts ol Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi, admitted a negro for several years, hut in-tbe present session the question of excluding him was , raised, And a majority votea to turn him oat. This action was based solely on his color. \