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formances on record that prove them capable of keeping in 

 the best of trotting company for any distance. In 1843, Sir 

 Walter Scott paced on Beacon Course eighteen miles in less 

 than an hour without a break or halt. In the same year, Oneida 

 Chief paced against the best trotters of that time Lady 

 Suffolk, Confidence and Dutchman and won more races 

 than he lost, making 2m. 28 l-2s., the best time then on re- 

 cord. In the following year, Tippecanoe paced at New 

 Orleans in 2m. 36s., carrying a very heavy rider ; and Un- 

 known paced on Beacon Course in 2m. 23s., a performance 

 that had never then been equalled by trotter or pacer. Old 

 Pacer Pilot paced in 2m. 26s. with 1651bs. on his back. In 

 1850, Roanoke paced under saddle in 2m. 21 l-2s. He was a 

 roan gelding, and nothing is known of his pedigree. In 1854 

 Pocahontas paced three heats in a race at New Orleans in 

 2:20, 2:25, and 2:20. But in the next year she brought the 

 figures down to something less than has ever been equalled 

 by any trotter but Dexter, and not surpassed by him. In. a 

 race with Hero, the pacer, in a wagon that weighed with the 

 driver 2651bs. Pocahontas paced the first mile in 2 :17. This 

 was never beaten but once, and not until 1868, when Billy 

 Boyce paced at Buffalo faster than any other horse had ever 

 trotted or paced. In a race with Holla Goldust, a trotter, 

 mile heats, 3 in 5, to saddle, Boyce paced the second mile in 

 2 :15 1-4, and the third in 2 :14 1-4, pacing the last half of the 

 second mile in 1 :5 1-4, and the first half of the third mile 

 in 1 :6. 



Many pacers belong to trotting families, and some trot- 

 ter's seem to make their speed from a pacing ancestor, though 

 this is not common. Oneida Chief was half-brother of Flora 

 Temple's sire. Woodpecker, the trotter, and James K Polk, 

 the pacer, both took their speed from the same dam. Hero, 

 the pacer, and competitor of Pocahontas in her wonderful 

 performance, was begotten by Harris's Hambletonian, the 

 sire of the trotters True John, Green Mountain Maid, John 

 Anderson, and Sontag, a mare that was at first a natural 

 pacer and afterward trotted very fast. Saltram, the sire of 

 Highland Maid, was a pacer, and his dam, Roxana, was also 

 a pacer. Highland Maid paced naturally, but was taught to 

 trot, and went very fast. At six years old she trotted against 

 Flora Temple, and lost the race by getting tired, being young, 

 and going into a pace, which was her natural and easiest gait. 

 She won the first heat in 2 :29, the second in 2 :27, but was 

 distanced in the third. Highland Lass, a daughter of High- 

 land Maid, was a fast trotter, and died in 1865. Her daugh- 



