viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



ANTIQUITY AND HISTORY OP THE PACING IIOKSE. 



PAGES 



The mechanism of the different gaits The Elgin Marbles Britain be- 

 comes a Roman province Pacers in the time of the Romans Bronze 

 horses of Venice Fitz Stephen, the Monk of Canterbury Evidence 

 of the Great Seals What Blundeville says What Gervaise Markham 

 says What the Duke of Newcastle says The amble and the pace 

 one and the same At the close of Elizabeth's reign The Galloways 

 and Hobbies Extinction of the pacer The original pacer probably 

 from the North Polydore Virgil's evidence Samuel Purchas' evi- 

 dence The process of wiping out the pacer King James set the 

 fashion All foreign horses called " Arabians" The foreigners larger 

 and handsomer Good roads and wheeled vehicles dispensed with the 

 pacer Result of prompting Mr. Euren Mr. Youatt's blunder Other 

 English gentlemen not convinced there ever were any pacers 154-171 



CHAPTER XIV. 



THE AMERICAN PACER AND HIS RELATIONS TO THE AMERICAN TROTTER. 



Regulations against stallions at large American pacers taken to the West 

 Indies Narragansett pacers; many foolish and groundless theories 

 about their origin Dr. McSparran on the speed of the pacer Mr. 

 Updike's testimony Mr. Hazard and Mr. Enoch Lewis Exchanging 

 meetings with Virginia Watson's Annals Matlack and Acrelius 

 Rip Van Dam's horse Cooper's evidence Cause of disappearance 

 Banished to the frontier First intimation that the pace and the trot 

 were essentially one gait- -How it was received Analysis of the two 

 gaits Pelham. Highland Maid, Jay-Eye-See, Blue Bull The pacer 

 forces himself into publicity Higher rate of speed Pacing races very 

 early Quietly and easily developed Comes to his speed quickly His 

 present eminence not permanent The gamblers carried him there 

 Will he return to his former obscurity ? 172-189 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE AMERICAN SADDLE HORSE. 



The saddle gaits come only from the pacer Saddle gaits cultivated three 

 hundred years ago Markham on the saddle gaits The military seat 

 the best The unity of the pace and trot Gaits analyzed Saddle 

 Horse Register Saddle horse progenitors Denmark not a thorough- 

 bred horse 190-195 



CHAPTER XVI. 



THE WILD HORSES OF AMERICA. 



The romances of fifty years asro Was the horse indigenous to this country? 

 The theories of the paleontologists not satisfactory Pedigrees of 

 over two millions of years too Ion Outlines of horses on prehistoric 

 ruins, evidently modern The linguistic test among the oldest tribes 

 of Indians fails to discover any word for " Horse" The horses aban- 

 doned west of the Mississippi by the followers of De Soto about 1541 

 were the progenitors of the wild horses of the plains 196-204 



