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ting sire, as in the case of the dam of Maud 

 S., is no surprise, and no argument whatever 

 against my position, but confirms it. That the 

 next remove from the blood of the race horse, 

 if the remove be with choice trotting blood, 

 will produce a still greater proportion of fast 

 trotters, is what I assert. We want good, tried 

 and approved trotting blood upon this founda- 

 tion; and the more of this material we can put 

 there, and the further we are pushed away 

 from that foundation by such material, the bet- 

 ter for certainty in producing fast and reliable 

 trotting horses. 



PACERS AND SADDLE HORSES. 



Pacing horses have long been highly prized 

 in all countries where horseback riding has 

 been much practiced as a means of locomotion 

 in the transaction of business, partly on ac- 

 count of the greater ease of this gait to the 

 rider, partly because a change in the gait of 

 the horse is a relief to one who needs must be 

 in the saddle for a whole day at a time, and for 

 the further reason that it has usually been 

 considered a more speedy gait than the trot. 

 Hence horses that can both trot and pace have 

 long been bred in many portions of the United 

 States. Experience has most thoroughly dem- 

 onstrated the fact that the trot and pace are, 

 to a very considerable degree, interchangeable ; 



