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this century, except the direct descendants of Messenger, was so 

 sedulously concealed that it was entirely natural for so many 

 men to conclude that the trotter was not bred, but made by the 

 trainer. When Flora Temple was the queen nobody knew that 

 her speed came from a pacer. Old Kentucky Hunter was a very 

 fast pacer. When Pelham was king nobody knew he had been 

 a pacer. When Highland Maid eclipsed all records nobody knew 

 she was pacing bred and had been a pacer herself. When Ver- 

 mont Black Hawk was the most popular sire of his day nobody 

 knew that his dam was "Old Narragansetfc," a pacer. When Ethan 

 Allen stood at the head of all young trotters the old grey mare, 

 his dam, was, and still remains, entirely unknown, but everybody 

 believes that a large share of his speed came from that mare. 

 Andrew Jackson, the head of the great Clay family, was out of a 

 fast pacing mare. And thus we might extend the list indefinitely. 

 But away back, more than a hundred years before the period of 

 which we are here speaking, pacing and trotting races had be- 

 come so numerous that they had to be suppressed by legislative 

 enactment. More than two hundred years ago there were pac- 

 ing races and trotting races in this country, and then as now it 

 seems evident that the form of the action of the prospective colt, 

 whether lateral or diagonal, was uncertain until it appeared. 

 This condition of uncertainty about the secrets of the womb has 

 existed for centuries, as it exists to-day; and if we were furnished 

 a complete list of all the great trotters of the last two decades 

 that were born pacers we would hardly be willing to believe our 

 own senses. The following short list of such animals as have 

 gone fast at both forms of the gait will serve to illustrate the 

 oneness of the two forms: 



PACING. TROTTING. 



Jay-Eye-See, bl. g. by Dictator 2:06J 2:10 



Direct, bl. li. by Director 2;05J 2:18| 



Monbars, b. h. by Eagle Bird 2:16f 2:11 



George St. Clair, b. h . by Betterton 2:10 2:15 



Heir-at-Law, bl. h. by Mambrino King 2:07| 2:12 



Ottinger, br. g. by Dorsey's Nephew 2:ll- 2:09f 



Bert Oliver, b. h. by Ashland Wilkes 2:08f 2:19 



Vassar, gr. h. by Vatican 2:07 2;21f 



Pilgrim, br. h. by Acolyte 2:10 2:2()f 



San Pedro, bl. g. by Del Sur.... 2:10f 2:14| 



Wardwell, b. g. by Almont Jr 2:16 2:14 



Gazette, b. h. by Onward 2:09f 2:23f 



Welcome, b. h. by Arthur Wilkes 2:10^ 2:27^ 



