1 66 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



fore foot we discovered that he was shod to force 

 action. The shoe must have weighed close to 

 three pounds. On another occasion Onward was 

 brought before me, and when the decision was in 

 favor of Jay Gould, a highly formed and well-bal- 

 anced horse with a faster record. Colonel R. P. 

 Pepper, then the owner of the son of Dolly, was 

 bitterly disappointed. An affront to his horse 

 was an affront to him. No horse, during the 

 time he was owned by Colonel Pepper, was ever 

 more pushed than Onward ; and yet he proved 

 his greatness. He is the sire of 136 trotters, in- 

 cluding Beuzetta, 2.o6f, and Onward Silver, 2.05 J; 

 also of 46 pacers, among them Pearl Onward, 

 2.06^, Gazette, 2.07J, and Colbert, 2.07!^. On^ 

 hundred and seven sons of Onward are sires of 

 speed, and 80 of his daughters are dams of speed. 

 Alcantara, bay horse, foaled in 1876, and his 

 brother Alcyone, one year younger, were out of 

 Alma Mater by Mambrino Patchen, she out of 

 Estella, thoroughbred daughter of imported Aus- 

 tralian, and the blood combination was the reverse 

 of a handicap. Alcantara trotted to a record of 

 2.23 previous to being taken to the Berkshire 

 Hills, where he was energetically managed, and 

 he is the sire of 104 trotters and 47 pacers, and of 



