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Pacers. To the close of 1893, there were fourteen pacers 

 with records of 2:08, and thirty-two with records of 2:10; 

 while the number with records of 2:30 or better, was about two 

 thousand. 



Pace-maker. The leading horse in a heat is said to be 

 the " pace-maker," as he sets the pace for the field. 



Paciii8"-blood. It is generally believed that pacing 



blood is an element of great speed in the trotter ; in support of 



which is cited the case of Blue Bull, the great pacing sire of 



trotters, who never showed a disposition or ability to trot at 



any rate of speed, yet he maintains his position as one of the 



three or four great progenitors of trotters. This is believed to 



be evidence of the oneness of the trotting and pacing gaits. 



There are multiplied evidences that a horse may be trotting 



bred and his natural habit of action may be the lateral motion 



— the pace ; or he may be pacing bred, and his habit of action 



may be the diagonal gait — the trot. It is true that if the horse 



move the two legs on one side at the same instant, he is a pacer ; 



and if he moves the diagonal legs at the same instant, he is a 



trotter, however he may have been bred. If one desires to 



know where the trotting colt gets his pacing action, he has 



inevitably to go back to his pacing ancestors. 



No coit has ever been foaled a natural pacer that did not have a pacing 

 inlieritance or ancestry from some source. — Wallace's Monthly. 



Pacing" standard. The following rules embrace the 

 pacing standard for registry in the American Trotting and 

 Pacing Register : 



First: Any pacing stallion that has a record of 2:25 or 

 better; provided any of his get has a record of 2:30 pacing, 

 or better ; or provided his sire or dam is already a standard 

 pacing animal. 



Second : Any mare or gelding that has a pacing record of 

 2:25, or better. 



Third: Any horse that is the sire of two pacers with 

 records of 2:25. 



Fourth: Any horse that is the sire of one pacer with a 

 record of 2:25 or better, provided he has either of the following- 

 additional qualifications — 1 : A pacing record of 2:30 or better ; 

 2 : Is the sire of two other animals with pacing records of 2:30 ; 

 3 : Has a sire or dam that is already a standard pacing animal. 



Fifth : Any mare that has produced a pacer with a record 

 of 2:25, or better. 



Sixth : The progeny of a standard pacing horse when out 

 of a standard pacing mare. 



