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Percheron, reduced in size by the more rigorous conditions 
of climate. This seems to the writer the most untenable 
of all the theories. Long observation of the more com- 
mon types prevalent among the French-Canadian people, 
and attendance at their winter ice-racing, where the 
most of those with speed would congregate, substan- 
tiate the writer’s opinion. In all its characteristics the 
French-Canadian comes nearer the Morgan in some traits 
and nearer the Thoroughbred in others, than those of any 
other breed or family. While like the Morgan in type 
and style of going when trotting, yet it must be admitted 
there are very few pacers among the Morgans. Also, not 
many of the Thoroughbreds pace unless there is a strain 
of pacing through the dam’s side. The French-Canadian 
families, especially those showing inclinations to pace, 
although most of them were double-gaited, have in time 
become submerged in the foundation of other families 
which are now of most prominence. Among the Canadian 
families of early origin, the most noted spring from Copper- 
bottom, Pilot, Daniel Boone, Drennon, Davy Crockett, 
Corbeau, St. Lawrence, St. Clair. Of those of more dis- 
tinctly Thoroughbred origin, might be mentioned Smug- 
gler, Clear Grit, Uwharie and Hiatogas, while perhaps the 
two most noted of all, the Hals, springing from Tom Hal 
in Tennessee and Blue Bull in Indiana, had their origin 
so shrouded in misty legend that it is not even advisable 
to speculate on it. From all that we know, it may be safe 
to assume that the Thoroughbred horse has had as much 
to do with the evolution of the pacer as any other up to 
the time of the introduction of the standards, although 
we have to admit that there seems to have been an original 
stock on which the Thoroughbred, as a scion, was grafted 
with more or less success. 
