. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. =34 ". -.£*- -â¢_-« Vol. III. No. 7. NO. 508 MONTGOMERY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY. AUGUST 18, 1883. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR Peculiarities of the Pacers. Editor Breeder axd Sportsman":âIn a late number of your paper, I noticed a clipping taken from the New Yorh Spirit, written by Mambrino, regarding the pacing race at Washington, in which he criticises RiehbalTs driver. I am glad that some of the Eastern writers have opened upon these pacers, for like all other animals that affect the lateral meth- od of locomotion, the trio of pacers
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. =34 ". -.£*- -â¢_-« Vol. III. No. 7. NO. 508 MONTGOMERY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY. AUGUST 18, 1883. SUBSCRIPTION FIVE DOLLARS A YEAR Peculiarities of the Pacers. Editor Breeder axd Sportsman":âIn a late number of your paper, I noticed a clipping taken from the New Yorh Spirit, written by Mambrino, regarding the pacing race at Washington, in which he criticises RiehbalTs driver. I am glad that some of the Eastern writers have opened upon these pacers, for like all other animals that affect the lateral meth- od of locomotion, the trio of pacers composed of Lone Jack, Kichball, and Westmont, have been implicated in aDy num- ber of jobs. "For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain," count several more on pacers and their managers, than on any other class of speed animals. The horses themselves are not responsible, but like poor old dog Tray, they have been so long in bad company, that to speak of a pacing race is to call to mind visions of defeated favorites, empty pocket-books, loss of confidence in the fra- ternity, and general disgust that such things exist and are allowed to overcome ns like a summer cloud. Lone Jack and Westmont, both belong to Mr. B. J. John- son of Creston, Iowa, yet, they have been in the same races during the past twelve months, alternating with the wish of the owner, iu the winning or loosing of any given event. Kichball, since the first of September, 18S2, has been the property of Fayette Smith, a grain dealer and successful horseman, residing at Marysville, Mo. From the time of his first race, after becoming the property of Mr. Smith, until the great Chicago meeting, when Kichball secured a record of 2:13, this handsome son of King Faro, has contested the greater number of his races with the sorrel son of Al- mont and the brown gelding from the Texas trail. These ! three pacers went through the Missouri and Kansas circuit of 1882, and through the great independent circu
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