53 HAY SEED, OR HOW TO 



Kentucky Prince winning both races easily, driven by 

 the veteran, Hiram Woodruff, while Hero was driven by 

 George Spicer, a worthy contemporary of Hiram's. 

 Therefore assuming the theory to be correct, that a pacer 

 tires in his legs sooner than a trotter, it stands the trainer 

 ill hand to season the pacers legs thoroughly. The pac- 

 ing gait is not as trying to the legs as the trotting gait, 

 and consequently the pacer can, and does stand more fast 

 work in his preparation for a campaign, or in the course 

 of his development than you would subject the average 

 trotter to. All the rules of health, feed, care and man- 

 agement in his sw^eats and races are identical to those in 

 vogue respecting the management of trotters. The pac- 

 ing mare Gurgle, now owned by J. I- Case, Esq., of 

 Racine, Wis., is a noticeable example of how near you 

 can come to spoiling a pacer of the first magnitude by 

 endeavoring to make an indifferent trotter. Pat Dicker- 

 son, of North Vernon, Ind., bought her of his brother in 

 the Spring of 1883, for six or seven hundred dollars, as a 

 trotter, but she demonstrated to her owner's satisfaction 

 in the first race he had her in, that he had more of a pacer 

 than trotter, and acting upon the impulse, changed her 

 shoes, and at the Chicago meeting she distinguished her- 

 self in the great pacing contest, wherein Johnson was the 

 winner, by finishing a good second in 2-13, and was sold 

 then and there to J. I. Case, for, I think, $7,000. This 

 was a happy change. Gurgle was sired by the pacing 

 stallion Pocahontas Boy, sire of Buffalo Girl, J. H. Clark, 

 of Scio, Alleghany County, New York, is owner of Poca- 

 hontas Boy. Pacers before they get balanced in their 

 gait will often hit the inside of one front foot against 

 the inside of the hind foot of the opposite side, and 

 sometimes " scalp " the inside of the hind pastern, in 

 which case a pair of scalping or toe boots would be 

 necessary ; but a pair of very light toe weights from 

 two to four ounces, ordinarily corrects the habit, and, 

 once over it, by continued proper attention to shoeing 

 and driving, it rarely returns. I believe a light steel bar 

 shoe, not to exceed twelve ounces in weight, for front 



