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...Bret Hanover: the Hanover-Hempt Farms Stake in a new track record of 1 min. 57 ⅓ sec.; at The Meadows in Washington, Pa. With Driver-Trainer Frank Ervin in the sulky, the unbeaten three-year-old pacer swelled his 1965 earnings by $8,700 to $118,700, stretched his sensational winning streak to 29 races...
...Bret's record is the more astonishing because he is a pacer and does his racing in harness, towing a two-wheeled cart and driver behind.* Handicapping harness horses is every bit as confusing as rating thoroughbred "flat" racers, and even then there are dozens of ways for the best horse to lose. He can get caught in a "blind switch"-boxed in by opponents' sulkies. He may be startled by the flick of the whip into "breaking"-going off stride. He can be "hung" wide on the turns and lose too much ground to make...
...producing champions for 39 years. A Cleveland coal broker, Richard Downing, paid $50,000 for the colt at a yearling sale in 1963, turned him over to Trainer Ervin, who was on the verge of retiring after more than 5,500 victories on the track. Ervin took the budding pacer for a spin, and changed his plans...
...pacer is laterally gaited, striding first with both right feet, then both left feet. Pacers are more common than diagonally gaited trotters, and generally faster...
Then Dr. Seymour Schwartz of the University of Rochester reported that he had already implanted similar devices in two human patients. The major difference is that the Rochester pressure pacer uses no electrodes in the heart, but relies on its own battery pack, which can be recharged from outside the skin. A man with blood pressure running 220/120, despite drug treatment, had a pacer implanted on the right side of his neck two months ago, and is now reading 150/100 or lower. A woman patient who got the implant a month ago is doing equally well...