Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-06-01
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All of which may be true; but we
build like to ask in passing, Was there
er real PAGER in England9 BY real
Ger we mean one which paced like the
Ger of today in America. 1t has been
Ii experience that there is vast differ
lee in the degrees of the pace, and we
ieve the PAGER of today has more
rfect gait than the racer of even TWEEN
years ago. Bears pace, some uogs,
treat many colts when first foaled,
ge number OF trotters when going
wv, and we have even heard OF Few
|Droughbreds that ambled little. But
+ this pacing? We believe not. There
as much difference between it and
hi pacing as there is between reading
ID oratory. There are many degrees
!. the pace, as we said. THERE'S a world
amblers. but few PAGERS. If our
hders doubt it, watch a pacing race
rise the next time the opportunity pre-
. 1ts itself, and we venture the assertion
will agree with us. The rolling,
billing gait often called the pace is a
snomer, and has done the PAGER a
eat deal of harm. That gaitis uncouth
p d repulsive, whereas the true pace is
pretty and pleasing, as full of symme-
and grace, and as essentially distinct
any o her race gait. 1t is also our
servation that the majority of the
btting-bred PAGERS have a perfect gait
arer perfect than many of the pacing
F. ed fellows, many families of which are
+ LINED to go wide, or sprawl, or lose
ne with too much rolling motion.
rect was a PAGER; so is Brown Hal.
fact, we have never seen a son of the
ter we thought was quite the equal of
old horse in this respect. When the
lblers are all killed of and the perfect
ed PAGER comes to the front in sufficient
mbers to attract public attention, we
all expect to see the PAGER the most
shionable harness horse for the park
d boulevard.
4. Referring back, then, to Mr.. Wallace
4 marks, which are certainly entitled to
hch weight by virtue of his age and eX-
rience, has he not placed the English
j. lbler or saddle pony on the same foot
i as the American pacing race horse;
4. our own experience we know nothing
the so-called English PAGER, and as he
a. bred out over an hundred wears
0, we suppose he was never anything
s. ore than the palfrey of Sir Walter
otis novels, or the jennet of Andalu'
1. in Spain. If this be true, it is hardly
ir to claim that the pacing gait was ev'
+ firmly fixed in him, and that it would
quire but little stronger blood to fl
lily eliminate it altogether. AS further
oof of the above, it is fact that PAGER:
We been crossed and recrossed on thor
ghbreds in Tennessee, and yet the pac
Il gait clings to the offspring with sur
Using tirmness. And for this reason
have advocated more thoroughbred
God in the PAGER. Reflector 2:lO5 hat
thoroughbred dam; Tom Webster
12a second dam was by the thorough
ed, Commodore, and it's fact that til,
are could not pace at all, but was new
theless the dam of two-Tom Webster
2:l2l, and Bay Pilot, 2:2l4. All tn
ID pacing sires of this State which W,
II now recall had thoroughbred bloOC
f ose up, some more, Others less, bur i
ID not seem to interfere with their gaits
ow far the experiment can be carried
. e can not say. but we believe fresh in
sions should be made every now an,
|en.- [Clark's Horse Review.