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three-fourths of a second, and Bonita now holds the scepter with 2:183/. 
As a three-year-old, Cora, in 1860, made 2:3734; Blackwood, in 1869, 
2:31; Lady Stout, in 1874, 2:29; Phil Thompson, in 1881, 2:21; and Hinda 
Rose, in 1883, obtained the fastest heat on record, 2:19 14. 
At two years, Julia Ann Johnson scored 2:4514 in 1871. The follow- 
ing year Doble lowered this record to 2:4034; in 1877, So-So made 2:38% ; 
in 1880, Fred Crocker made 2:251{; in 1881, Wild Flower made the re- 
markable time of 2:21, and Sweetheart 2:231/. 
The great yearling performance of Hinda Rose, 2:3614, stands alone 
and unapproached, and is a remarkable record for that age. 
PACING. 
Nothing like the attention has been devoted to the pacer that the 
trotter has received, so that his history and performances are obscure. 
There have no doubt been many fast pacing records that are now lost 
through neglect. In old times such horses as Roanoke, Oneida Chief and 
Hero were accounted on a par with the trotters of the day; but when the 
wonderful mare Pocahontas distanced Hero in 2:1714, and drew a wagon, 
and that too with an overweight driver, with the greatest ease, it was found 
that the trotters of the day were not up to that record. Since then the 
record has been gradually lowered, till now 2:10 has been reached by the 
bay gelding Johnston, and this also eclipses the trotting record which for a 
time held the supremacy. It is the popular belief that the star of the 
pacer is in the ascendant, but it is very doubtful whether pacing can ever 
compare with trotting, especially when we can breed trotters from trotters 
with certainty, so that the trot will be as natural as the pace now is. 
Already we see so many examples of great performers bred directly from 
trotting stock that we may hope in the near future to rely on the actual 
establishment of a breed of trotting horses, and a pure-bred trotter will be 
much more desirable than an animal produced by the hap-hazard method of 
hybridizing from which most of our great trotters have sprung. 
[At Chicago, on July 10, 1884, when the above was standing in type, 
the pacer Westmont, a-chestnut gelding, by Almont, with his running mate 
Firebrand, a thoroughbred by Fireball, made the marvelous record of 
210134 on an exhibition turn—first quarter, 301% seconds; half, 1:00; three- 
quarters, 1:30. In spite of a break at the finish, he thus did the fastest 
mile ever made in harness, and handsomely led all former pacers and 
trotters. Frank and mate had astonished horsemen in the fall of 1883 by 
a score of 2:0834.—En1Tor.] 
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