TROTTING HORSE, a horse trained to trot at high speed without breaking into a gallop. Trotting horses are of two distinct races: (1) The Russian, which is Arabian on a Flemish stock, at taining high speed, but with bad knee action; (2) the American, which is prob ably both Barb and Arabian on an Eng lish stock. Some of the fastest English trotting horses can cover a mile in three minutes, while American trotters have done the same distance in a few sec onds over two minutes. The American trotting horse has been constantly in creasing in speed, and what a few years ago was considered a wonder ful performance is now looked on as commonplace. The history of the rise of the trotting horse—especially from the time of "Rarus" down to the days of "Nancy Hanks"—presents a constantly lower record of the time required to trot a mile. The names of individual Ameri can trotters are known all over the world, and the prices paid for some of them seem almost fabulous. The record for several years after the advent of "Maud S," remained stationary, but since has been eclipsed several times. "Nancy
Hanks" trotted a mile against time in two minutes and four seconds, harnessed to a pneumatic sulky weighing pounds, and accompanied by a running horse, on the regulation track, Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 28, 1892. "Alix," in harness, trotted a mile against time in two minutes and three and three-fourths seconds, at Galesburg, Ill., Sept. 19, 1894. "Star Pointer," in harness, paced a mile against time in one minute and 59% sec onds, at Readville, Mass., Aug. 28, 1897. "Macy" made 1 mile, 20 yards, in one minute, 40 seconds, at Washington Park, Chicago, July 2, 1898. "Firearm" made % of a mile in one minute and 8% sec onds at Morris Park, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1899. "Ethelbert" in 1900 made one record of 2% miles in 3 minutes, 49 seconds, and another record of 1% miles in 2 minutes, seconds; "Latson" made the same record as the last quoted, in 1901. "Blue Girl" made a record of 1 and 1-16 miles in one minute, 44% seconds May 23, 1901. "Uhlan" trotted one mile in one minute and 58 seconds in 1912.