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a,ncj qualities that give evidenoe that he will display p^reat positiveness 

 and excellence , 1^ a, sire. JJe. is a dark chestnut, with a greaf whita 

 face, , and three white legs tQ the knee and hock and one white to tho 

 8.nkle. His mane ^nd tail light in cplor, but of, fair qu^^ntity. He 

 was bred by Samuel Scott, of Jefferson county, Ohio, and was sold as 

 a weanling to Q, M. Hoover, Bradford, Ohio, and has recently passed 

 into the hands of Dr. H. B.Dale, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, There is 

 probably nq such concentration of pacing blood to be found in the 

 entire country. 



Since the foregoing and a large of the succeeding pages of this 

 work were in type and . plates, I have discovered a lengthy but noji 

 very lucid discussion of the subject of the pacers, in a periodical 

 devoted to equine literp,ture, which I deem proper to notice in this 

 chapter. The matter referred to forms a part of a series of chapters, 

 only fragmentary parts of which I have read — a fact which I must 

 confess, although admitting that it is not one which is highly <X)mpli- 

 mentary to the author. 



In this dissertation the subject is treated as one newly discovered 

 and the importance of which is only equaled by the light thus for the 

 first time shed upon it. In a disjointed and hasty way I have read 

 some of these pages — they are many — but I failed to see their highly 

 im]")ortant bearing on the subject of breeding trotters, or the intense 

 light that is thereby supposed to be shed on the problem in hand. 



It appears to have been discovered very recently, on the authority 

 of some very ancient writers, that the pacers belong to a very old 

 stock, and one of those writers, in a history written in the Latin 

 language — '•'•Horse Latln^'' I suppose — ^gives the information that at 

 the early period in which he wrote, the horses of the locality by him 

 referred to " do not trot^ hut amble, and yet neither trotters nor 

 amblers are stronr/est — as strength is not alwai/s incident to that 

 which is gentle or less courageous.'''' 



From this ancient writer it is shown that the origin of the pacers 

 antedated that period, although the question whether the antediluvian 

 stock which came down the slope of Mt. Ararat was a pacer is not 

 settled by this scrap of " Horse f jatin." But in the discussion to 

 which I refer, it must be conceded that the one point, and the only 

 one mad(> clear, is the antiquity of the race. 



It is furthermore, after the most exhaustive research, found that the 

 pacers came to this continent in the earliest period of its history. In 

 the same connection, it is shown that a current tradition prevails in 



