8 NATIONAL STANDARD PACING HORSE BREEDERS CO. 



"At the time of the planting of the American colonies no variety of horse 

 was more common and more generally useful than the pacer. He was too 

 small for war, but he was the universal favorite for the saddle. The colonists 

 brought them over, and here is the source of the American pacer of to-day. 

 This was about the year 1632. 



"The lateral motion of the pacer seems to be as old as the diagonal motion 

 of the trotter, and the two motions were contemporaneous more than two 

 thousand years ago, just as they are in this country to-day. If, therefore, 

 it is to be proven that the trot is primitive and the pace is not primitive, we 

 will have to go back nearer to the original pair in the Ark with Noah than we 

 have been able to go." 



Mr. Wallace also says, under date January, 1891, bearing upon the value 

 of pacing blood and perpetuating and improving the same, '■'■we now think 

 that the pacer is not only the chief source of trotting speed, hut it is prob- 

 able that he is the only source.'''' In view of this, how opportune that this 

 Company came forward to encourage the better breeding of the pacer through 

 a Pacing Standard. — Ed. 



