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CHAPTER XV. 



VALUE OF TROTTERS AS COMPARED WITH THAT OF 

 PACERS. 



Individual trotters of the first-class have as yet sold for 

 more money than any pacer. But allow me to predict, 

 (and I am not interested in any pacer or sire of pacers), 

 that the time will come when a first-class pacer will bring 

 as much as a trotter of the same degree of merit. There 

 is a reason at present existing that is manifest, why a 

 pacer is not as valuable in dollars for racing purposes, as 

 a trotter. This is it : There are a thousand fast trotters 

 where there are ten pacers, and consequently, trotting 

 associations that are composed of men largely interested 

 in breeding trotters, and as trotters predominate in such 

 a degree, more money by far is offered by such associa- 

 tions to be competed for by trotters ; and until within 

 two years, there was no show anywhere for a pacer if he 

 was not a "Whirlwind" in point of iipeed, and for this 

 reason, men who wanted to invest money in racing stock 

 bought trotters because there was a greater number of 

 chances to win out their investment in races. But the 

 pacer can no longer be ignored, he is bound to come to 

 the front, the public demand it. You over-hear men 

 talking now a days about attending a meeting, many of 

 whom cannot leave their business more than one day 

 perhaps, and nine out of ten of this class, will ask what day 

 do the pacers go? "I want to see the " Sidewheelers." 

 Any day at a race meeting where a large field of pacers 

 are advertised to start, there will be a good attendance; 

 it is the attraction of the day and meeting, as a race among 

 a fair field of pacers of any class, has been invariably worth 

 seeing, they have in the past invariably "gone for blood," 



