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Updated: June 15, 2025
And the little sprite got in, keeping her head and the little cup of a bonnet protruding every moment to look round; yet if it could have been seen in the dark, with such a sly, half-humorous eye, as betokened one of those curiously-made creatures who seem to be formed for studies to the thoroughgoing decent pacers of the world's stage.
The horses we bestrode were mustangs from the prairies of Texas, trained to that gait, the "pace" peculiar to the saddle-bags of the South-western States. Excellent "pacers" both were; and, before the night came down, we had made more than half of our journey. Up to this time we had exchanged only a few words. I was busy with my thoughts busy planning my enterprise.
Wright had no sooner reached the auction mart than a telegram was handed him. It was from his employer, and read as follows: "There are also a pair of seal-brown pacers to be sold. Secure these in addition to the others. Price must not stand in the way." David Wright crushed the telegram in his hands, and the first oath he had ever uttered in all his life was ground out between his teeth.
That festive bunch up in the reserve seats'll think it's awful, and that the HS sorrel is a lady's hoss alongside him, but a real rider can wear him out. But that sorrel when yuh think yuh got him beat, Billy, is when yuh want to watch out!" Billy turned his face away from a rolling dustcloud that came down the home stretch with the pacers, and looked curiously at Andy.
The drive from Canleys to the Royal Sovereign could be done by good pacers in an hour and a half, little more with Ives and the stables ready, and some astonishment in a certain unseen chamber. Fleetwood chuckled at a vision of romantic devilry perfectly legitimate too. Something, more to inflict than enjoy, was due to him.
He was fond of all animals, and especially delighted in horses, early demonstrating a surprising power in managing them. He was locally noted for his success in breaking colts, and as a trainer of horses to be pacers, those having this gait being esteemed more desirable for riding, at a time when a large part of all traveling was done on horseback.
Hinckley, their daughter, whom I recognized as the splendid blonde whose pacers had passed us when we were out driving, Mrs. Trescott and her daughter, and Captain and Mrs. Tolliver. Those present were plainly of several different sets and cliques. Mrs. Hinckley hoped that my wife would join the Equal Rights Club, and labor for the enfranchisement of women.
The horseman's adoration of a noble horse had grown and grown, till now he would as soon have thought of shooting his best mount as firing on that splendid beast. Jo even asked himself whether he would take the handsome sum that was offered for the prize. Such an animal would be a fortune in himself to sire a race of pacers for the track.
Now I know; but I can't plant a sapling, I can't raise an apple, without binding myself to the Cannons and Hollidews of the County for life. "I'd be their man, growing their fruit, paying them their profits. They would stop at the fence, behind their span of pacers, and watch me their slave sweating in the field or orchard."
There were, until that date, professional horse-trainers, whose duties were to teach horses to pace; though by far the best saddle-horses were the natural-gaited "Narragansett Pacers," the first distinctively American race of horses.
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