STRANGER. 



(Published in '"The Horse Review," May 5, 1892.) 



Stranger was only a horse, a despised pacer, whose 

 name does not shine in the list of celebrated equines, not 

 because he was not a king of his kind, but because blind 

 fate denied him the chance of being so acknowledged. 

 But to the rapidly passing-away horse generation of 

 Northern Ohio, Stranger was a phenomenon of equine 

 greatness ; and he is to this day mentioned with the awe 

 and respect which merit inspires. As a landmark in Ohio 

 horse history, the pacer out-ranks the trotter, and the 

 Buckeye state must be classed among those known as 

 pacing-horse states. Pocahontas, Smuggler, the Cadmus 

 family, the Hiatogas, the Tuckahoes and the Strangers, 

 were all Ohio pacers, and all have contributed largely to 

 the speed of the American trotter. Stranger was a bay, 

 sixteen hands high, of intelligent disposition, yet unlim- 

 ited courage. Almost phenomenally built and muscled, 

 bold and brave in all his ways, with the speed of light- 

 ning, and these qualities, coupled with the mystery of his 

 sire's history, had the effect of creating something akin to 

 superstitition among the horsemen of his day, and causing 

 the many mythical traditions regarding him current in 

 Northern Ohio. 



The true story is as follows : 



''One evening in the fall of 1852, there appeared at 

 the farmhouse of Mr. Galentine, near Sharon, Medina 



