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feet, will suit a pacer better than any other, and I will 

 add, that no shoe for any horse is as good as a bar shoe 

 properly set. There should be a space between the froej 

 and the bar of the shoe, when first applied, so you can 

 readily slip a silver quarter of a dollar between. By using 

 a bar shoe, the horse gets a natural frog pressure and 

 keeps the frog pressed up into the sole where it belongs, 

 and the foot will stay sound longer at fast work, with a 

 bar shoe properly applied than with any other. In driv- 

 ing a pacer, a different position in the sulky may be as- 

 sumed than in driving trotters; a pacer needs more weight 

 on his back than a trotter, and the position intended to 

 throw as much weight on the horse's back as possible 

 should be assumed. In catching a pacer when he makes 

 a break, swing him a little side wise, first one way then the 

 other, he has got to catch a side at a time and this motion 

 will do it quicker than a pull you would take on a trotter 

 to recover him from a break. 



There is a family that belong in Southern Indiana, 

 named Stewart, who are natural born handlers of pacers. 

 They brought out Flora Bell, Greeley, and a number of 

 others, not so distinguished, but fast. I have heard them 

 state that a pacer could be made to go as fast as he ever 

 would in sixty days. No horse designed to become a fast 

 pacer should ever be allowed to trot; make him either 

 pace or walk. A double gaited pacer is a fraud and a delu- 

 sion. 



