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amble or full speed. However, many pacers jog-trot, and 

 when forced to full speed at a trot strike into a pace when 

 urged to do more. 



It is considered by some persons that the pace is an 

 ungainly gait, but it is to be remembered that, like all 

 other gaits, there is a difference in the classes of it. Some 

 horses pitch in such a way as to be lumbering in gait, 

 but others go as true and as frictionless as the piston of 

 an engine. Again, for road-riders, the pacer does not 

 develop, as a rule, into a puller, which is sometimes so 

 true of the trotter. While the pacing gait is generally 

 considered to be the faster of the two gaits, five seconds 

 is thought to about express the difference in time. The 

 pacer, as a rule, needs the lighter road rig, for the trotter 

 seems to have the advantage slightly in pulling power. 



116. Distribution. From the New England states 

 and Canada, especially Quebec, the pacer was gradually 

 scattered all over America, and is now found more par- 

 ticularly in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Cali- 

 fornia and Indiana. 



117. Organizations and records. The same regis- 

 tries and the same associations look after the interests of 

 the pacers as those that have the Standardbred trotter 

 under their auspices. 



Literature. Busby, The Trotting and Pacing Horse in America, 

 New York (1904) ; Helm, American Roadsters and Trotting Horses, 

 Chicago (1878); Lindsley, Morgan Horses, New York (1857); 

 Lowe, Breeding Race Horses by the Figure System, New York 

 (1898) ; Marvin, Training the Trotting Horse, New York (1892) ; 

 Merwin, Road, Track and Stable, Boston (1893) ; Splan, Life with 

 the Trotters, Chicago (1889); Woodruff, The Trotting Horse of 

 America, Philadelphia (1868). 



