The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-22

It looks like the blood of old Pilot,
Jr will breed on till the crack OF
DOOM. The pedigrees OF the horses
which have set the World agOg IN
many a race, do not. have to he eX-
tended far TO see the potent influence
of this old pacing horse in them.
The horse world is thoroughly IA
miliar with To ere starr, which carry,
liz so many instances, the blood OF
this Old PAGER But new one has
appeared in the horse So Long 2:l3I4
lie il ten years old and by Erelong
out OF Dalphine by Harold and she
out of Dahlin by Pilot,.Jr
HOrsenen seem to DO pretty gem
orally agreed that the trOttiug and
pacing gats are Interchangeable,
though we do not think so. by "in-
Interchangeable" they mean that
horse may tie taught to either trot or
pace; but " q think that i'll every case
of II trolting horse being easily taught
to pace, as in the case of Jay Eye
See. which held The worlds tIottiug
! record of 2:l0 and has lately paced in
2:O6tL it has not been so much AN
"inte. chaugeab: eness" in gaits as it
| is a pacing instinct in the horse which
was there all the time but allowed to
! lie dormant and undeVelOped. Jay
| EVe-See, whose dam was L lot, Jr
{ IlldTt, LAB d7 LIluCll lAOChoI ~ l'"CN 49,
! to trot, aud the fact that tie has gone
faster at tho pacing gait, shows that
his pacing instinct was even the
strongest.
But, however that may be, the
I ct presents itself that we have album
dant material in this section i'll tbs
nature OF our well-bred pacing mares
OF the Hal, Pilot, Brooks, Traveller,
! Slaaher, Pulaski and o'her blood, 10
produce not on'y PAGERS but even
frItters, the equal in speed and en-
duras.c If any in tie Ia III. W hy
Should not rom H-i maze prodGce
tru;ters tie equal OF P!lHt, il? The
latter never prUdUce'i ANY pred lilI-
sell, to speak %, a:Id made his r"i'u-
tgtiuu aim st entirciy from the per
fnlnaucr OF the descendants OF his
daughters. While nearly everything
ever trained of old Tom Hal has gone
last. The horse thuL can pfoiu"e
tn. ca I. c, r. with AN average record al
2:ugl,, surely ought To be abb In the
blood OF his daughters, If prop rly
mated to the right kind OF troLtiHg
stations, to produce trOtters the peer
of any in the land. So also with our
other fast PAGERS.
1.-THE form is there, the will TO GO,
the good bone and mus Gle ana II, ART
and lung--it matters not whether the
! trotting or the pacing instinct PEE
dominates, the speed will bn there.
There are too many sorry trotters
being bred. Too many whose backs
are long, and legs long, and which
are deficient in muscular develop
mtut, and the space between whose
last rib and hip joint is more in the
) nature of an "achirg void" than q
+ cIose-ribbed power of strengthened
as long Bs tTUtting people run crazy
on pIdiyrees, the longer Will there
= sorry suecimeIIs continue to be bred
1t is strange but true, that there are
dozen or more different varieties o
trotting forms, ranging from the Eiec
tioneers to the Clays. But IL TIM
| true of PAGERS? InvariRbly the pac
= ing mares will come up nearer to
common standard, aud that STANDARD
will always have leps waste, mor'
compactnesJ and symmetry than IA
usually be found in most trOtllnl
y families
t We should therefore be careful no
to breed out too hastily from the pac
ing form now 80 common and so de
e sifab!a in this section Of Middle Ten
nessee, And we should not fail T.
mate them with trutters patterne'
. after their own form, in the firm be
lief that mares that have throw
such horses as Hal Pointer 2:O5l a
t Matte Hunter 2:12%, Ella Brow
I2:n3d, Il, Hector 2:l5, Hal DIlliar'
2:l5ai, Storm 2:l5, Duplex Ella ant
l. hundreds of Others, would be equal.
as Irypotent in giving US the last an
game trOlters.