3o8 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



Wilkes by George Wilkes, dam Jewel by Gill's 

 Vermont, tracing directly to Justin Morgan, trotted 

 to a record of 2.19J, and is the sire of about as many 

 pacers as trotters. The fastest of his 137 perform- 

 ers in harness are pacers, — Guinette, 2.05 ; Lottie 

 Loraine, 2.05! » Eyelet, 2.o6| ; and Cubano, 2.06^. 

 His inheritance, so far as known, is purely a trot- 

 ting inheritance, but in transmitting speed he 

 varies form so as to contribute to the lateral as 

 well as the diagonal column. Dictator by Ham- 

 bletonian out of Clara by Seely's American Star 

 carries the blood of two foundation trotting sires, 

 and his son Director out of Dolly by Mambrino 

 Chief was a great trotter ; but Direct by Director 

 out of Echora, 2.23^, by Echo by Hambletonian, 

 has a record at both ways of going, — 2.18J at a 

 trot and 2.05I at the pace, — and he is the sire of 

 both pacers and trotters. The fastest of his get, 

 Directly, 2.03J, is a pacer, and at Shultshurst he 

 is demonstrating that the trot and the pace are 

 interchangeable according to the influence exer- 

 cised by the mares fertilized by him in moulding 

 conformation. Jay-eye-see, the sensational trotter, 

 by Dictator, was a compact little horse with the 

 open Star action behind which permitted the hind 

 feet to clear the forward ones ; and I saw enough 



