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latter has two noted sons, Star Pointer, with fifteen in 

 the list, all pacers, and Hal Dillard, with forty-two in the 

 list, only three of which are pacers. In some instances 

 there is a union of one of the leading families with the Hal 

 strain which produces pacers consistently. For instance, 

 Direct, 2 : 05j, of the Dictator family is a pacer and has 

 sired forty-two pacers and thirty-seven trotters. He 

 sired Direct Hal p., 2 : 04|, a leading sire of pacers, 

 and a most successful campaigner. While some of the 

 families of Standardbreds show a stronger tendency to 

 trot than to pace, the reverse is not common, although it 

 is possible that in time this may result, as it is ostensibly 

 the aim to establish two separate standards. The cham- 

 pion pacing stallion, Dan Patch, 1 : 55i, is sired by 

 Joe Patchen, a noted race horse and a pacer, sired 

 by Patchen Wilkes of the George Wilkes-Mambrino- 

 Patchen cross; and the dam of Joe Patchen was by Joe 

 Young of Morgan breeding. The dam of Dan Patch was 

 Zelicia by Wilkesberry, which was a Wilkes on his sire's 

 side and a Clay on his dam's. There is very little of 

 what might be called pacing blood in her pedigree, although 

 the Wilkes strain and the Abdallah 15 strain have pro- 

 duced many fast pacers. On the other hand, Lou Dillon, 

 a champion trotter, 1 : 58 J, comes as near being of a 

 pacing line through her sire as almost any noteworthy 

 pacer. At present it does not seem likely that the 

 pacing families will become separate from the trotting 

 families. 



114. Description. It was a prevalent opinion some 

 years ago that there was a type evolving among pacers, 

 but this has been largely dispelled. Dan Patch (Fig. 14) 

 is as smooth and graceful in line of mold as it would be 

 possible to conceive an ideal, and Joe Patchen is con- 



