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for, at much trouble and expense, by some who were choice in 

 their selections. 



"The aged Thomas Matlock, of Philadelphia, was passionately- 

 fond of races in his youth — he said all genteel horses were 

 pacers. A trotting horse was deemed a base breed. All races 

 were pace races. 



" Thomas Bradford, of Philadelphia, says they were rmi in a 

 circular form, making two miles for a heat. At the same time 

 they run straight races of a mile. 



" Mr. I. T. Hazard, in a commnnication, states, that " within 

 ten years, one of my aged neighbors, Enoch Lewis, since de- 

 ceased, informed me that he had been to Virginia as one of the 

 riding boys to return a similar visit of the Virginians in that 

 section, in a contest on the turf; and that such visits were com- 

 mon with the racing sportsmen of Narragansett and Virginia 

 when he was a boy. Like the old English country gentlemen ^ 

 from whom they were descended, they were a horse-racing, fox- 

 hunting, feasting generation. 



"My grandfather, Gov. Robinson, introduced the famous 

 saddle horse, the ' Narragansett Pacer,' known in the last cen- 

 tury over all the civilized part of i^orth America and the West 

 Indies, /"/'om ivhence they have lately been hitroduced into Eng- 

 land as a ladies' saddle horse, under the name of the Spanish 

 Jenette. Governor Robinson imported the original from Anda- 

 lusia, in Spain, and the raising of them for the AVest India mar- 

 ket was one of the objects of the early planters of this country. 

 My grandfather, Robert Hazard, raised about a hundred of them 

 annually, and often loaded two vessels a year with them, and 

 other products of his farm, which sailed direct from the South 

 Ferry to tlie West Indies, where they were in great demand. 

 One "of the causes of the loss of that famous breed here, was the 

 great demand for them in Cuba, when that island began to cul- 

 tivate sugar extensively. The planters became suddenly rich, 

 and wanted the pacing horses for themselves and their wives 

 and daughters to ride, faster than we could supply them; and 

 sent an agent to this country to purchase them on such terms as 

 he could, but to purchase at all events. 



"I have heard my father say he knew the agent very well, 

 and he made his home at the Rowland Brown House, at Tower 



