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amble or full speed. However, many pacers jog-trot, and 
when forced to full speed at a trot strike into a pace when 
urged to do more. 
It is considered by some persons that the pace is an 
ungainly gait, but it is to be remembered that, like all 
other gaits, there is a difference in the classes of it. Some 
horses pitch in such a way as to be lumbering in gait, 
but others go as true and as frictionless as the piston of 
an engine. Again, for road-riders, the pacer does not 
develop, as a rule, into a puller, which is sometimes so 
true of the trotter. While the pacing gait is generally 
considered to be the faster of the two gaits, five seconds 
is thought to about express the difference in time. The 
pacer, as a rule, needs the lighter road rig, for the trotter 
seems to have the advantage slightly in pulling power. 
116. Distribution. — From the New England states 
and Canada, especially Quebec, the pacer was gradually 
scattered all over America, and is now found more par- 
ticularly in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Cali- 
fornia and Indiana. 
117. Organizations and records. — The same regis- 
tries and the same associations look after the interests of 
the pacers as those that have the Standardbred trotter 
under their auspices. 
Literature. — Busby, The Trotting and Pacing Horse in America, 
New York (1904); Helm, American Roadsters and Trotting Horses, 
Chicago (1878); Lindsley, Morgan Horses, New York (1857); 
Lowe, Breeding Race Horses by the Figure System, New York 
(1898); Marvin, Training the Trotting Horse, New York (1892); 
Merwin, Road, Track and Stable, Boston (1893); Splan, Life with 
the Trotters, Chicago (1889); Woodruff, The Trotting Horse of 
America, Philadelphia (1868). 
