These world records, the choicest in the harness world, are held to-day, August, 1905, by the descendants of the old roan pacer: 1. First horse to go a mile in harness in 2 minutes, Star Pointer, 1:59-1/4. 2. Fastest 4-year-old mare, The Maid, 2:05-1/4. 3. Fastest green performer (1905), Walter Direct, 2:05-3/4. 4. Fastest heat in a race, stallion, Star Pointer, 2:00-1/2. 5. Fastest heat in a race, mare, Fanny Dillard, 2:03-3/4. 6. Fastest first heat in a race, Star Pointer, 2:02. 7. Fastest third heat in a race, Star Pointer, 2:00-1/2. 8. Fastest fifth heat in a race, The Maid, 2:05-3/4. 9. Fastest two heats in race (Dariel and) Fanny Dillard, 2:03-3/4, 2:05. 10. Fastest three consecutive heats in a race, Star Pointer, 2:02-1/2, 2:03-1/2, 2:03-3/4. 11. Fastest three heats in a race, Star Pointer, 2:02-1/2, 2:03-1/2, 2:03-3/4. 12. Fastest seven-heat race, The Maid, 2:07-1/4, 2:07-1/4, 2:05-1/4, 2:09, 2:05-3/4, 2:07, 2:08-3/4. 13. Fastest mile in a race to wagon, Angus Pointer, 2:04-1/2. 14. Fastest team, Direct Hal and Prince Direct, 2:05-1/2. 15. Fastest three-heat in race to wagon, Angus Pointer, 2:06-1/4, 2:04-1/2, 2:06-1/4. 16. Fastest green performer, stallion, Direct Hal, 2:04-1/2. 17. Fastest team in a race, Charley B and Bobby Hal, 2:13. 18. Fastest pacing team, amateur trials, Prince Direct and Morning Star, 2:06. It will be observed that all of these records except a few were made in races and not against time. Whence came this wonderful family of horses? What is this pacing gait? What mingling of blood lines have brought these horses of the plow, the saddle and the wheel to the grandstand and the pinacle of fame? This is the story I shall tell as a serial during the first twelve issues of Trotwood’s Monthly. The light-harness horse has come to be a type of its own. It is distinctly an American type, as distinguished from the English running, or thoroughbred horse, the German and French coach, the Russian Orloff and horses of other nationalities. There is a wide gap, however, between a race horse, whether runner or harness horse, and other breeds, however pure, their blood lines. It is the difference of intelligence, speed, endurance, of lung development, of steel bone. It is the difference between genius and mediocracy--for speed is to the horse what genius is to man.