322 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



Pocahontas, chestnut mare 

 Sleepy George, bay gelding . 

 Sleepy Tom, chestnut gelding 

 Little Brown Jug, brown gelding 

 Johnston, bay gelding . 

 Johnston, bay gelding . 

 Direct, black horse 

 Hal Pointer, bay gelding 

 Mascot, bay gelding 

 Robert J., bay gelding . 

 John R. Gentry, bay horse 

 Star Pointer, bay horse . 

 Dan Patch, bay horse . 



The 2.17! of Pocahontas, in 1855, was to 

 wagon, a big handicap as wagons were built in 

 those days. Johnston's 2.o6j was to high-wheel 

 sulky on a regulation track, and it stands out as 

 conspicuously as does the 2.o8f of Maud S. to 

 high wheels on the regulation track at Cleveland. 

 The 2.06 of Direct was on the kite track at Inde- 

 pendence, Iowa, which was faster than an oval for 

 high wheels. The bicycle sulky came into gen- 

 eral use in 1892, and all subsequent records were 

 made to it. The fastest unquestioned record in 

 the compilation is that of Star Pointer. The 

 1.56^ of Dan Patch was with dirt-shield. Star 

 Pointer was a marvellous horse, bred from pac- 

 ing lines for pacing purposes, and among the 

 great pacers defeated by him in races were Joe 



