 | Henry William Herbert - Horse racing - 1857 - 620 pages
...exported to all parts of English America. They are remarkable for fleetness and swift pacing ; and I have seen some of them pace a mile in a little more than two minutes, and a good deal less than three." If the worthy doctor of divinity were a good judge of pace and had a good timing watch, it would seem... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Horse breeding - 1857 - 628 pages
...exported to all parts of English America. They are remarkable for fleetness and swift pacing ; and I have seen some of them pace a mile in a little more than two minutes, and a good deal less than three.'1'' If the worthy doctor of divinity were a good judge of pace and had a good timing watch,... | |
 | Ontario. Agricultural Commission, 1880 - Agriculture - 1881 - 550 pages
...and during the early part of this century was spread through all the English colonies." " They could pace a mile in a little more than two minutes, and a good deal less than three." " Theirs is an inheritance that has come down from a greater antiquity than that of the running horse,... | |
 | New England - 1890 - 746 pages
...exported to all parts of English America. They are remarkable for fleetness and swift pacing, and I have seen some of them pace a mile in a little more than two minutes and a good deal less than three." In the realm of fiction we find testimony to the qualities of the Narragansett Pacers. In Cooper's... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - Clothing and dress - 1893 - 408 pages
...exported to all parts of English America. They are remarkable for fleetness and swift pacing and I have seen some of them pace a mile in a little more than...minutes and a good deal less than three minutes. I have often upon the larger pacing horses rode fifty, nay sixty miles a day even in New England where... | |
 | Agriculture - 1892 - 890 pages
...Narragansett pacer was spoken of by Cooper in one of his novels. In it this statement appears : " I have seen them pace a mile in a little more than two minutes and a good deal less than three." During the first 100 years, the history of our horses was carried in tradition. When a horse trotted... | |
 | John Dimon - Horses - 1895 - 528 pages
...Writing about Rhode Island in 1735, Rev. James McSparron observes that he has seen some of these pacers " pace a mile in a little more than two minutes and a little less than three." It appears from this that the timers of those days were not so particular... | |
 | John Hankins Wallace - Horse breeding - 1897 - 678 pages
...little of the force of the language he used. To talk about horses pacing, a hundred and fifty years ago, in a little more than two minutes and a good deal less than three, appeared to be simply monstrous. The language evidently means, according to all fair rules of construction,... | |
 | William Henry Gocher - Connecticut - 1904 - 410 pages
...from the sea, trace to this band on Point Judith and of which the Rev. Dr. McSparren said that he had seen "some of them pace a mile in a little more than two minutes." How much more would be very interesting to those who study racing. The first horse brought to New England... | |
 | Abraham Van Doren Honeyman - Reference - 1909 - 424 pages
..."Narragansett pacers." Rev. McSparran. who used them later, says of them, that "some could pace a mile in little more than two minutes, and a good deal less than three." Dr. McSparran died in 1757, and his long ministry at Narragansett was full of honor. In 1723 Mr. Honyman... | |
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The produce of this colony is principally butter and cheese, fat cattle, wool, and fine horses, which are exported to all parts of English America. They are remarkable for fleetness and swift pacing; and I have seen some of them pace a mile in a little... 
