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of him to believe that he would have beaten his 

 record of 2.10 at the trot if he had kept thoroughly 

 sound. When he became tender on one of his 

 legs, he was differently balanced, and shifted to 

 the easier pacing gait, and took a record at that 

 way of going of 2.06^. Baron Wilkes, who trotted 

 to a record of 2.18, and who carries the blood of 

 George Wilkes and Mambrino Patchen, the best 

 son of Mambrino Chief, is one of our greatest 

 sires of trotters, and yet the fastest of his get are 

 pacers, Bumps, 2.03^, and Reubenstein, 2.05. 

 With such illustrious examples before us we need 

 not puzzle our wits to discover the origin of the 

 Narragansett pacer or the source of the Canadian 

 pacer. 



John R. Gentry, one of the handsomest horses 

 in the world for his size, and a standard-bred 

 trotter, is a fast pacer. He was bred by H. G. 

 Toler, Wichita, Kansas; foaled in 1889; by Ash- 

 land Wilkes, 2.17^, who traces twice to Hamble- 

 tonian through George Wilkes and Administrator ; 

 dam Dame Wood by Wedgewood, 2.19 (son of 

 Belmont and Woodbine); second dam Fancy, 2.30, 

 by Winton. We should look for him to show 

 extreme speed at the trot, whereas, owing to his 

 form, he is a pacer with extreme speed. Among 



