PACERS OR TROTTERS?

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 250, 10 July 1918, Page 6

PACERS OR TROTTERS?

TROTTING PRESIDENT'S OPINION. jj In his aildresH to tho Troltine Conference yesterday Jlr. John Howe said: On tho merits of tho pacer versus the trotter T have read recently several interesting j articles, some trying to show that the increase of the former is menace to the ' horse-breeding industry. I cannot agree ti that pacing is a menace, for we breed t< almost as many purc-galted trotters from r; nacing parents as we do pacers, ana vice jj versa, and lam quite clear in. my own mind that 19 out of every 20 nacing yearlines can be made to trot, and trot mcII. . if required, but for tho fact that many L of our breeders and trainers make uacera J; out of their trotters for the reason that at a paclns gait the individual comes more i readilv to its Bpced. lam not in any way going back on my previously expressed opinion that t.he pure-gaited trotter should be encouraged, and I would be Btrongly in 1 favour of added stakes for that class, but g my advocacy is largely that we may re- T tain tho greatest utility of the of j tho trotting-bred horaeß by haung them taught to trot instead of forcing them to pace, and with that object I tlimk our best course would be to begin now to do away with the .hopples, which I hope eventually to see removed from our ( tracks." .