Whatever the means may have been that tended to the establishment of a distinct breed of horses, the result was soon evident; by the early years of the eighteenth century the Narragansett Pacers were known throughout the colonies as a desirable breed of saddle- horses. "Customs and Fashions in Old New England", - Alice Morse Earle

In Rhode Island the breeding of horses resulted in that famous and first distinctively American breed- the Narragansett Pacers "Customs and Fashions in Old New England", - Alice Morse Earle