. The encyclopaedia of sport. oJ (whichis still the champion record for that age), wassold for $120,000 or a little over _:^25,ooo. Thethree-year-old colt Axtell, also a champion, was sold for $105,000, or ;^21,000. Bell Boy atthree years old sold for ^17,000; Stamboul(^) for ;^io,ooo ; Nancy Hanks for;^9,ooo ; Maud S. ^8,000 ; Dexter ^^6,000 ;while ;i^2,ooo for a high-class performer or abrilliant prospective one was an average figureup to 1893, when the financial depression causeda heavy fall in all prices. An article on the trotter would be incompletewithout a reference to the pacer, fo
. The encyclopaedia of sport. oJ (whichis still the champion record for that age), wassold for $120,000 or a little over _:^25,ooo. Thethree-year-old colt Axtell, also a champion, was sold for $105,000, or ;^21,000. Bell Boy atthree years old sold for ^17,000; Stamboul(^) for ;^io,ooo ; Nancy Hanks for;^9,ooo ; Maud S. ^8,000 ; Dexter ^^6,000 ;while ;i^2,ooo for a high-class performer or abrilliant prospective one was an average figureup to 1893, when the financial depression causeda heavy fall in all prices. An article on the trotter would be incompletewithout a reference to the pacer, for with manyhorses the gaits are interchangeable, and thevast majority of trotting sires begat a certainproportion of pacers. The pacers, with a fewnotable exceptions, are all trotting bred. StarPointer, the champion pacer, with a record ofI59^ is the grand exception, as he is a memberof a pacing saddler family long famous in Ten-nessee, but he is the one exception to a thousandpacers, who are by trotting sires out of trotting. .\Ir. L. iIo.\ Record, dams. John R. Gentry 2ooi, ex-champion,traces on both sides of the line to Patchen, 2oi^, is by George Wilkes, son ofHambletonian, while on the dams side he isstrongly inbred to Mambrino Chief. It is alsoa common incident for a trotter, when he hasgot to the limit of his speed at the trot, to beput to pacing, and there are many horses whocan go at either gait, as the following sample listwill show :— Jay-Eye-See . .Heir-at-Law . ,Ottinger . . Direct Connor George St. ClairSan Pedro . .Red Bud ... .Bert Oliver . .Monbars . . .Vassar ^219^ 2 osi }}2*07 and there are scores of others. Trotting in England, as a racing pastime, is inits infancy. Of late years, under the fosteringcontrol of the Trotting Union of Great Britain, 484 THE
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