Both my greyhound interest and my 'trots' interest go back almost 50 years. There have been so many great pacers over that time, horses that had, to use a word mentioned above by one of the other members, aura. They captured the imagination of the public. There were 3 wondeful pacers in the early 1960s: Caduceus, James Scott and Cardigan Bay. They came along in that order with some overlap between the latter two. Both James Scott and Cardigan Bay went to the USA (not sure about Caduceus) to represent Australia and NZ, respectively, against the best in the world and importantly they were victorious. Not the greatest pacer I have ever seen but relative to his time, the fastest, is Mount Eden. His Miracle Mile win after doing an awful lot wrong was incredible. My understanding is that Johnny Tapp also rates this as the greatest Miracle Mile win ever.