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to pace through. Brown Pilott won the race in good 

 style in two heats. The riders were so wet and muddy 

 it was hard to tell one from the other. Mr. Ephraim 

 Nesbitt was my jockey and my neighbor, and went 

 the round trip with me and was a most excellent as- 

 sistant. I mention this trip and circumstance not to 

 encourage sporting, but on the contrary would advise 

 all of my readers to abstain from all manner of evil 

 and to keep from forming any bad habits. It is much 

 easier to contract bad habits than it is to abandon 

 them. 



I have great partiality for all kinds of fine domestic 

 animals, and have raised some animals that have dis- 

 tinguished themselves on the turf as pacers, viz.: 

 Tom Hal, the sire of Snow Heels; and he sired the 

 famous brood mare. Sweepstakes, that was the dam of 

 Hal Pointer, 2.4^; Star Pointer, i-SpJ^; and eight 

 others that all had good records. She certainly was 

 the most famous brood mare for producing pacers on 

 the American continent. 



I feel it due to give a brief history of the sire and 

 grandsire of this famous old brood mare, which lived 

 to be twenty-nine years old: Snow Heels was her 

 sire and was bred and reared by me in Rutherford 

 County, Tennessee, and he was sired by my Tom Hal, 

 he by Major Kitrell's Tom Hal, and he by Tom Hal, 

 of Kentucky. My Tom Hal had four thoroughbred 

 blood crosses on his dam's side, and looked more like 

 a thoroughbred blood horse than a saddle stallion. 

 Snow Heels' first dam was sired by Puckett's Glencoe, 

 and he was sired by imported Glencoe. Puckett's 

 Glencoe's first dam was the noted four-mile mare, 

 Frances Terral, by Bertran, he by Sir Archie, and he 



