Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-20
Breeding Of Fast Horses
Has Made Big Money.
Estimated S1Oo,0OO,OOO Is In
vested in United States.
6ossip About the Relative Merit and Value
Of the Two Salts.

That the breeding and development
of trottinE and pacing horses have
been of incStima BILE benefit to the
country will not be denied even by the
casual observer. 1t has added its mil
lions of material wealth to the country.
and thousands of honest, hard-work-
ing men and women are now earning
their living at the business.
1t is estimated that 100000, 900 is
invested i'll the breeding of trotters and
PAGERS in The United States, and this
enormous sum is, perhaps. the best
argument that can bc offered TO prove
the wonderful growth and development
of the breeding industry. 1t is now
no longer "a matter of wonder or sur
prise among breeders that of two ami
mails from the same parent one should
be a trottcr and the other "a PAGER.
Those who have had actual expert
cncc and who have been close ObServ-
c:s seem now willing to admit that the
TrC StiGc which the PAGER holds today
and the rapid strides he has made in
gaining favor in the holsc world are
but little short of marvellous.
Had a man predicted 80 years ago
tie PAGER would stand at the head %
The great trottlng interest of the world
he would have been laughed at; and
vet, it has remained historically true.
and applying to Ill nations. that where
there have been no PAGERS no trottcrs
are found.
Isolated as the PAGER has been for
Ct INJURIES. an outcaSt and disgrace to
lao hnrGa family ~ ic nc
strange that this culprit. condemned
to Il life of drudSery. should now be
brought out and exhibited to the pub
lie as an equal to the best. That an
array of PAGERS could De brought out
that would in makeup and SdmencsS
average up with Il like number of trOt-
tors appears to have been a revelation
to Il great multitude of people, and
II ON tn. day when this knowledge was
revealed to them tho PAGER has rcceiv-
ed Il fair show on his own merits.
Some maintain that tho pace is an
artificial ard cultivated gait. Some
relate the ancient story that the pacing
instinct spianC from the NarraSansett
PAGER. shirwrecll"d in passage from
Egypt to this country, brought ashore
OH the coast Of Newfoundland. from
" hence lie was taken to Narragansctt
Bay.
In the first half Of the 18th century
PAGERS were popular. and il is claimed
We're handled everywhere in England.
In the second half of the 18th century
not one could be found III all Britain
Who can say that during the period of
Pcricles in Athens that the PAGER did
IN h.,, nft ip IA, ;,vl, ct.
lection?
In the absence of time records. and in
the face Of tho fact that the PAGER in
his tru" unmistakcabic pacing attitude.
has been preserved ana handed down
to US in PentclliC marble may he ovi-
dcnCc that the rough little fellow re-
tanned his qualities through ascS Of neg
lect. until he was again taken NJ and
given a chance about IL quarter of "a
century ago
1t was in 1870 that the chestnut mare
Poca houtaS mad hor appearance on
the turf Durinf the month of Scptcn-
Der of that year she made a pacing re-
cord of 2.1i: to wagon. but because
she was a PAGER little ado was at the
time made of il. She was bred To the
trotting stallion Ethan Allen, and trc
produce. a fily foal that was "A square
trottcr and called Young Pociontas,
was sold az Il five-ycar-old to Robert
Bonner for $4,000.
The pacing record Of PocahontaS
stood until 1869. when Yankee sam re-
duccd it to 2.1el2. Sleepy George clip
ped second and a half from this re-
cord i'll 1873 and in 1879 Sleepy Tom
gave Il mile in 2.12ia
1t WAS in the EOS. about the time of
the advent of the Hal family of Tennes-
sec. with Little Brown jug and Matte
Hunter. that the PAGER began to DC
thought seriously of as Il factor in horse
development. although the speed anu
great Hood lines of Pocahontas. James
Is. Polk and other noted PAGERS Of an
earlier period. it seems. should have
f"rctold the possibilities that lay in the
pacing gait.