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Dealer. The original Tom Hal was a roan 

 taken from Canada to Kentucky, and it has 

 been claimed that he carried the blood of Justin 

 Morgan. The people of Maury and other coun- 

 ties of Tennessee were fond of the saddle, owing 

 in a measure to the quality of the roads, and the 

 pacing conformation was cultivated by them. 

 In addition to Brown Hal, the fast pacers sired 

 by Gibson's Tom Hal were Little Brown Jug, 

 who took his record of 2.1 if in 1881 ; Hal 

 Pointer, 2.04^, once a shining light of the Vil- 

 lage Farm campaign stable; and Imperial Hal, 

 2.12^. There were no trotters from him, because 

 he stamped his form upon his progeny. Sweep- 

 stakes, a mare with sloping hips, foaled in 1871, 

 and by Knight's Snow Heels, son of Knight's 

 Tom Hal, the son of Gibson's Tom Hal; dam 

 Kit by McMeen's Traveller by Sugg's Stump-the- 

 Dealer, was bred to Brown Hal, thus bringing 

 together kindred strains, and the result was Star 

 Pointer. He is a representative of strictly pac- 

 ing lines, and I shall look for him to produce 

 pacers, except when he breeds away from his 

 own type. Sweepstakes is the greatest of pac- 

 ing matrons, and she passed from Armstrong 

 Glenn, who raised her, to Captain H. P. Pointer 



