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Seventh : The female progeny of a standard pacing horse 

 when out of a mare by a standard pacing horse. 



Eighth : The female progeny of a standard pacing horse 

 when out of a mare whose dam is a standard pacing mare. 



Ninth: Any mare that has a pacing record of 2:30, or 

 better, whose sire or dam is a standard pacing animal. 



Tenth : The progeny of a standard trotting horse, out of a 

 standard pacing mare, or of a standard pacing horse, out of 

 a standard trotting mare. 



Pacingr— World's Record. [To the close of 1893.] 

 One mile — Mascot, by Deceive, Terre Haute, Ind., September 

 29, 1892, (race record) ; and Flying Jib, by Algona, Chicago, 

 111., September 15, 1893, (against time), 2:04. Fastest mile by 

 a stallion — Direct, by Director, Nashville, Tenn., November 8, 

 1892, 2:05^. Fastest mile to wagon — Eoy Wilkes, by Adrian 

 Wilkes, Independence, Iowa, (kite track), October 30, 1891, 

 2:13. Fastest mile under saddle — Johnston, by Joe Bassett, 

 Cleveland, Ohio, August 3, 1888, 2:13. 



Packing. The act of stopping, or stuffing a horse's foot 

 when in stable, by covering the sole with some moist and soft 

 material, which is often fastened in place by means of a thin 

 steel spring inserted under the rim of the shoe. Various mate- 

 rials are used — moist clay, a wet sponge, damp moss, (peat), 

 petrolatum, (a packing saturated with petroleum), and felt 

 pads, which are made to fit the sole, and are fastened by means 

 of a metallic toe-piece and a strap which buckles around the 

 foot. As a winter packing, tar and oakum is often used. 



Pad. A pad-horse ; a road-horse. 



Pad. A small lay, or cushion, made of leather, felt or 

 deer skin, kersey-lined, placed under the saddle of a harness, 

 to prevent it from resting dii'ectly on the back of the horse. 



Pad. The saddle on the top of a surcingle, used in giv- 

 ing the colt his first lessons in bitting ; to which the turrets 

 through which the reins play are fastened, thus keeping the 

 colt's head in line with his body, preventing accidents and 

 securing an evenly made mouth and carriage. 



Pad-tree. A soft cushion, or stuffed part of a saddle or 

 harness ; used to fill up a hollow, to relieve pressure, or as a 

 protection from a saddle gall. 



Paddling'. An erratic action of the forward feet by 

 which the horse goes very wide, and swings the near or off, 

 and sometimes both forward feet, outward, when at speed. In 

 general, paddlers are bad scalpers, are liable to hop, and should 



