360 THE HORSE OF AMERICA. 



1879, got by Gibson's Torn Hal; dam the pacing mare Lizzie, the 

 dam of the pacer Little Brown Jug, by John Netherland, son of 

 Henry Hal; grandam Blackie, by John Hal, son of John Eaton; 

 great-grandam Old March, by Young Conqueror. Bred by R. 

 H. Moore, Oulleoka, Tennessee, passed to M. C. Campbell and 

 Campbell Brown, Springhill, Tennessee. Here we have a still 

 stronger intensification of the pacing instinct, for this horse not 

 only has a pacing record himself of 2:12-^, but he put twenty of 

 his progeny into the standard list, and all of them pacers. It is 

 not shown by the Year Book that either this horse or his sire has 

 any trotters to his credit, but it can hardly be doubted that some 

 of their progeny took naturally to the diagonal trot, and not 

 showing encouraging speed, were never developed. 



If the question were asked, "What is- to result from this in- 

 tensely pacing family?" it would be very difficult to frame a satis- 

 factory answer. At present this family shows all the vigor of 

 youth in its new development, but, judging by others that have 

 come and gone, it too, in its turn, will be submerged in more 

 prepotent strains, that will more nearly meet the wants of their 

 masters. The pacer has been lifted from obscurity and made the 

 equal of the trotter as a race horse; his blood has contributed to 

 an unknown extent in giving speed to the trotter, but he must be 

 as good a horse for all uses as the trotter, or nobody will want him. 



KENTUCKY HUNTER, the head of the family bearing this nama 

 that, at one time, was very prominent in Central New York, 

 was foaled 1822, and was bred by Louis Sherrill of New Hart- 

 ford, New York, and was got by Watkins' Highlander. His 

 dam was a mare bought from a couple of dealers who were pass- 

 ing through New Hartford with some six or seven horses for 

 sale, and they represented this mare to have been brought from 

 Kentucky. On this representation she was called "a Kentucky 

 mare." She was a fine saddle mare and for this reason she was 

 used chiefly for that service. From her superiority as a saddler, 

 I think it is safe to conclude she was a pacer and could go the 

 saddle gaits. Kentucky Hunter was a chestnut horse, a little 

 above medium size. Mr. Sherrill sold him when young to 

 Messrs. Bagg and Goodrich who kept him two years and sold him 

 to William Ferguson, of Oriskany Falls, New York, and Mr. 

 Ferguson continued to own him till he died in 1838. 



During the lifetime of this horse the pacing gait was considered 



