THE AMERICAN TROTTING HORSE. 609 



known of his pedigree. In 1854, Pocahontas paced three heats 

 in a race at New Orleans in 2 m. 20 s., 2 m. 25 s., 2 m. 20s. But 

 in the next year in a race with Hero, the pacer, in a wagon that 

 weighed with the driver 265 lbs., Pocahontas paced the first mile 

 in 2 m. 17 s. This was never beaten until 1868, when Billy 

 Boyce paced at Buffalo faster than any other horse had ever trotted 

 or paced. la a race with Holla Golddust, a trotter, mile heats, 3 

 ia 5, to saddle, Boyce paced the second mile in 2 m. 15]- s., and 

 the third in 2 m. 14} s., pacing the last half of the second mile in 



1 m. 5} s., and the first half of the third mile in 1 m. 6 s. 

 Woodpecker, the trotter, and James K. Polk, the pacer, both 



took their speed from the same dam. Hero, the pacer, and com- 

 petitor of Pocahontas in her wonderful performance, was begotten 

 by Harris's Hambletonian, the sire of the trotters True John, Grreen 

 Mountain Maid, John Anderson, and Sontag, a mare that was at 

 first a natural pacer and afterward trotted very fast. Saltram, the 

 sire of Highland ]Maid, was a pacer, and his dam, Roxana, was also 

 a pacer. Highland Maid paced naturally, but was taught to trot, 

 and went very fast. At six years old she trotted against Flora 

 Temple, and lost the race by getting tired, being young, and going 

 into a pace, which was her natural and easiest gait. She won the 

 first heat in 2 m. 29 s., the second in 2 m. 27 s., but was distanced 

 in the third. Highland Lass, a daughter of Highland Maid, was a 

 fast trotter, and died in 1865. Her daughter, Highland Ash, 

 by Ashland, is also a trotter, tind iu 1868 won the Spirit of the 

 Times Stake for three-year olds, over ibur thousand dollars, in 



2 m. 48 s. Flatbush Maid, one of Mr. Kobert Bonner's pair that 

 trotted to a road wagon in 2 m. 26 s., was begotten by a chestnut 

 pacing horse that also trotted. Pocahontas is nearly thorough- 

 bred, and was begotten by Cadmus, a son of American Eclipse. She, 

 therefore, takes her wonderful pacing speed from ]Messenger, the sire 

 of Miller's Damsel, who was the dam of American Eclipse. Her 

 daughter, Pocahontas, Jr., by Ethan Allen, is a trotter and very 

 fast. 



One of the fastest of converted pacers, Smuggler, is of the 

 same family, being a son of Blanco that was by the sire of Poca- 

 hontas. His record is 2 m. 15i s. Other converted pacers of 

 distinction are Molly Morris, 2 m. 22 s.. Filbert, 2 m. 28 s., Kan- 

 sas Chief, 2 m. 21 i s., Snowball, 2 m. 23 s., Silversides, 2 m. 23 s., 

 John B., 2 m. 27 s., G. T. Pilot, 2 m. 26 s., Dora, 2 m. 29 s., and 

 Bonesetter, 2 m. 20 s. 



These facts, a few of the many that could be cited, show the 



close relationship between pacers and trotters. They derive their 



speed from the same sources; trotters beget pacers, and pacers 



beget trotters j many go fast in one gait, and, after being taught 



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