CHAPTEE XIV. 



THE AMERICAN PACER AND HIS RELATIONS TO THE AMERICAN" 



TROTTER. 



Regulations against stallions at large American pacers taken to tLe 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 fron- 

 tier 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 devel- 

 oped Comes to his speed quickly His present eminence not permanent 

 The gamblers carried him there Will he return to his former obscurity ? 



IN the several chapters devoted to "Colonial Horse History" 

 will be found all the leading facts that I have been able to glean 

 from the early sources of information. With the exceptions of 

 the horses brought from Utrecht in Holland to New Amsterdam 

 (New York), two shiploads that sailed out of the Zuider Zee and 

 landed at Salem, Massachusetts, and those brought from Sweden 

 by the colonists that settled on the Delaware, all the early im- 

 portations came from England. As much the larger number of 

 those from England and Sweden were pacers, the breeds and 

 habits of action were soon mixed up, as those who had no pacers 

 wanted pacers for the saddle, and those who wanted more size, 

 regardless of the gait, were always ready to supply their want by 

 an exchange of their saddle horses for more size. The Dutch 

 horses were certainly something over fourteen hands and the Eng- 

 lish and Swedish horses were perhaps nearer thirteen than fourteen 

 hands. The colonists from the first, and from one end of the 

 land to the other, seem to have appreciated the importance of in- 

 creasing the size and strength of their horse stock, and this was 

 very hard to do under the conditions then prevailing of allowing 

 their horses to roam at large. Hence, stringent regulations were- 



