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fornia trotter Occident, which at one time was a very formidable 

 competitor of Goldsmith Maid. Occident has a record of 2:16f, and 

 twenty-three heats in 3:30 or better. 



One of the best trotters now on the turf is the horse Mazomanie, 

 by the Kurtz horse, a son of Paul Jones, a pacer. His record is 

 3:20^, and thirty -three heats in 2:30 or better, and still in the midst 

 of a career of great promise. The Kurtz horse has also Red Dick, 

 2:28, and four heats in 2:30 or better. This Paul Jones is the full 

 brother of Smith's Columbus. 



The Hiatoga family is one that is entitled to more than a passing 

 notice. They have grown up in Virginia, Kentucky and Central Ohio, 

 and are now attracting much attention as a family that has assumed as 

 near a fixed type as any pacers known to the public, this latter fact 

 resulting from having been long used as pacers and interbred in the 

 same general lines of blood. 



The first of these was a Virginia horse taken to Kentucky in 1822. 

 He was foaled in 1815, was a roan horse, and his pedigree is given as 

 by Col. Stephen Crutchfield's Hiatoga, son of Rordell's Hiatoga, 

 that was also taken from Virginia to Kentucky when aged. His dam 

 was Virginia by imported Diomed. He was bred in Caroline county, 

 and stood in Caroline and Albemarle. He went to Kentucky and was 

 kept at or near Lexington. To those who suggest he was a descend- 

 ant of the little sorrel Narragansatt, I will say he was a roan, and 

 sixteen hands one inch high. He was a pacer. At a still later 

 period, the date not given, there was in Virginia another Hiatoga, a 

 pacer, called American Hiatoga. A son of American Hiatoga was 

 taken to Fairfield county, Ohio, by Edward Rice. He was bred in 

 Rockingham county, Virginia. He was a fast pacer and spent the 

 great part of his life in Ohio, dying there; owned by Wm. Munger. 

 He was generally called Rice's Hiatoga. 



Old Togue, as he was called, was another Hiatoga, and he was by 

 Rice's Hiatoga. He was foaled in 1843. His dam was by Thunder- 

 bolt, grandam by Black Rover. He was owned in Central Ohio, in 

 Perry, Licking and Fairfield counties, and died at Columbus in 1871. 



Hanley's Hiatoga was a bay horse, foaled 1849, by Rice's Hiatoga, 

 dam Tahnadge's Firetail. He was kept mainly in Harrison and Bel- 

 mont counties, Ohio, and was both a pacer and trotter. He died in 

 1858. 



Scott's Hiatoga was one of the most noted of the family, as a 

 pacer and sire of both pacers and trotters. He was by Hanley's 



