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contrivancc, brought toe weights into general
use. More than one OF these converted PAGERS
earned a high place in the annsls OF the tro!-
ting turf. SmuEEler, the cOnQueror of Gold.
the ch.mpioh record for FOR trottns I Ist"ilens, is
Marvin having labored patiently for two years
70 make ttotter of the white. nosed son
each front foot, besides hopples and every
other known appliance, TO force this persistent
natural M pace, PAGER t9 change % his Ssit II the gal
under the changed conditions of to-day he
might, now be disputinE the championship of
and Joe Patchen.
After the Big Four had won a foothold for
tho PAGERS in the Grand Circuit and purses
were offered for the side wheelers at nearly all
trOttinE meetings throughout the country, the
VSas for turf q! co c"TS TSo pS
GERS, such as had formerly been converted into
trotters. were now genera ly permitted to stick
R t hSd bs%n tSsa 0sS ar
fetal appliances TO trot were shifted back to
OF 81 going. ding, Ths% % nome .oSrnns cspacity Of tho
PAGER was no sooner established than trniners
bred tretters could 10 taught to pace fast
by merely throwing away the toe weights and
making slight changes in their shooting and In
to establish an. develop the gait which the
same appliances had formerly served to prevent,
the circuits sorinkling OF PAGERS OF recognized
trottlng ancestry. like westmont, 2;ia4, by
Jim mGGRs Gsws h?s S q 81 Ss2 &osId,enD s aDPbb
a;is: by DIctatSri DICT shamrock. . a:2TSe' by yr. Vol,
wiiikes,the advance re- guard Of the. horde Of
trotting-bred aide, e,wheelers which has since
thon overrun tho harnes.:raci field. To-day
they comprise probably 95 per cent. of all the
PAGERS in training.
With the single exception OF Star Pointer.
Brown jug, Hal Pointer, and Brown Hal all
Rdx tRodox blood lines ' now on the turf turf John
r. Gentry. the record holder. who seems TO DO
on the verge Of crossing the two.minSts NJ, Linz
Wilkes, ,trot.ed to a record Of @:lTtt, MA he
out OF Daisy b., BY Administrator. and she out
OF daughter of the imported English run
trv. Yt dam Ian n Dame Woad. was BY the noted trot-
| ling stallion Wedgewood, 2:l9, son Of Bel.
2:s0,by Thoroughbred Winton. and 0ack of her
is the trotting blood of Frank Pierce.
| Robert j., 2:olb, who held the worlds REQ
stallion Hartford, 2:aoH, who wasa son m, Of
dam II Robert j. was got by the champion
/ trottng stallion OF his day, Jay Gould, 2:2lm, a
OF BY sa and S ram
ancestry. Joe Pstchen's sire /, the fashion
s:9sb, = SON OF George Wilkes and the closely
inbred MamorIno pntchen mare Kitty Patch.
old trotting horse Joe Young, who rnado q rec
ord Of 2:ls when nineteen years old. and Joe
Young was by the trottinE horse star Of tho
West. 2:26l, out of Lady Gregory, by
GREEN'S Bashaw.
The blood lines of the great PAGERS that
| have furnished tho sensations of the past three
seasons in harness racing are merely fair sam
pies of the breeding Of the average PAGER OF to-
day Al of the eham9ops at the lntera, gait
| from trotting ancestors. Belle Acton, 2:2Os4,
the tastes. yesrliY and opline lii s;9a tho
sssiiion tiH:S shadesnd Onward. a:1sId, whle Di;
rectly. whose 2:o7a as two.year-old and
mark far ss pacers Of Ike ages oy The
ting pred stallion Direct. 2:lsA, who, how
trot by the use Of heavy shoes and toe weights.
OF the l+1 horses that have paced in 2:40 or
better. only eleven trace back to resogntSsd eco
$50 heng the otfsnrnE Of trostin Z bred sires
Various theories have been advanced from
time 20 time by the students OF horSe breed lnE
and harness racing to account for the singular
fact that so many fast PAGERS Of the present
from corporations OF trotting bred .ancestoree
without drop Of recognized pacing blood
male mad ae when II the % trotlinS bred pace iirst put
in an appearance, that these frea ks OF the
,ro.ting horse tribe were ,nE dsm1nsfrr, az
the progress OF heredity. old. time PAGERS h.v.
ton ,S ''of Of the " prs.snt-day breod of trottins
horses. according to common belief. Sc
comparatively rare the atavic theory wa,
widely accented, but 1t has long since ceased
do sro.tnr hsrses i%s psceY ' Tho
renee TO some re. Ote ancestor has always
been demon,tr9tion M OF dd .uih extremely r"rt t
sporadic exception to the rule in a breed
ing operations. But the production OF pacerl
from stock that as far "a trac~able. Is OF purely
ccrta; n families like the shadeIand onward
formers Mt one gait as at tho other,
Another, school OF horsemep attribute thu
''structural incongruties." Their view Il
that The ro posS hSse Of Gf 94s hsyn
the union OF radically. vary ing types Of confor
nation, has disturbed a, inst correlation o.
of the horse, unsettng Atruc trotting, eeu'
poise and resulting in the pacing habit o
to structural causes. and not 70 mental prefer
cnce, is proved. say the adhcrents of thi
view. b, the fact that while the choice .
the animal, and his uncontrolled will lead
him to take the pacing step because In view
terfereGce. tho toe weight. to Offset the me
y oseSs sGSs colt H TiRFH nGHss
accord and under no stress Of mind shift
tain the gait. This suhtie theory is perhar
not easily reconcil ID with the fact that PAGERS
like trotters and runners. go fast In, al
shares, Ear rs the eye can perceive. Their
is the long bodied; .low-se,t Flying lib, '::oi
} built Direct. 2:O5L4: tho knife blade confor
nation Of Hal Pointer, a d the typical old
! wlIhers and low az tbs, Group, and tho, hors
like Allen Lowe. 2:l"l9. that Is good deA
higher the hins than on the withers, at
the compromise conformation like that o
John II. Gentry, who stands about as higl
forward as behind.
Still, other theorists venture an explana
i on Of the matter by asserting that tho tro
} and tho pace are virtually Identical. or rathe
different Manifestations OF one and the sam
} gait. Interchangeable in the individual am
. intcrtran smssihle to his progeny. On thi
theory they account FOR horses Ike Irene. VIII
: can pace half mile in :05 and then shift Il
\ trot and finish in 40 without any change o
rigging whatever; for horses like can Pedro
! who made pacing record Of 2:1o& In 1870
AMI in 1898, shod with slightly heavier from
] shoes: trotted toa record of2:l4h; for horse
} like Sidney, 2:l0s4 natural PAGER, and sir
OF both PAGERS and trotters, although his sire
Santa Claus, 2:l ~, and his dam, Sweet
ness, 2:2l4, were fast trotters without
! known pacing. ancestor near them on eithe
side. and for horses like Browns Tom Crow
der, a pacing bred paGer, whose only desCe nd