The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-24
Honner.s Horses.
From the New York Evening pes.l

.a~ From the New York Evening Postl r-T
Lantern, Peerless, Flatbush Mare, Lady Pal
mtr, Paeahontas, the Auburn hcrss, Dexter
what a tals of wondrous and unriyaled speed
does each Of these names unfold Il the mind Of
tie sporting man, eliminating In the "2:l7f' o.
Dexter. f.tfT
Let MS take them in the order above wr.tter.
and give few words of description ID each.
Lantern, then, is bay, with long t.n stard-
Jug about sixteen inches high not remark sble
for beauty of form, but rather for muscular de-
velopment. His head, though somewhat long, Is
well shaped, and his eye clear and mild. His hind
feet are white for some distance above the fet-
lock, and he hss white streak on his face. Ian
tern is the double-team champion, having made
2:243 in dead heat sgainst Elhsn Allen and his
male and having been driven since then, pri-
vateiy, mile In 2:20. ~
Peerless is a spotted white or rather gray
mare, about sixteen hands high, with long whita
tell, good head, clean legs, and remarkable gen.
tie demeanor if one may so express himself Of
horse Indeed she is SO gentle that she is used as
a country driving nag by the ladies' Of Mr.. Ron-
ners family. Yet she has made the fastest time
on record TO wagon, trotting her mile In 2:231.
Flatbush mare is double.teamster. She IS a
brown bay, about the size and make of Lantern;
and, with Lady Palmer, i'd double harness has
made the fastest time ever trotted in q two mile
heat to road wagon, namely: sol \.
Lady Palmer is a chestnut sofrel, about sixteen
and a half hands high with two white feet and a
white nose. She is somewhat heavily built behind
but has a fine head and clean sweep from the
mare, she has troited two miles to 3l6.pourd
wagon aud driver in 4:59 the greatest feat of
the kind ever performed. r f7
Pocshonias is assuredly the handsomest trottcr.
an one Of the most symmetrical, graceful and
perfectly foI med horsesin this country. Standing
about fifteen bands, dark rich bay, with a small.
fine head, proud arched nostril, brilliant eye her
ears wide apart, her tail sweeping re ground for
at least foot, and luxuriant as foxs br ash she
is a splendid picture of equine development.
Her appearance in public Is always the signal for
enthusiastic admiration among cOnnoisseurs; and
Commodore Vanderbilt once said to Mr. Bonner
that IL " was worth one hundred d0lsrs day to
look at her" This beauty trotted IN 2:23 when
o ily six years DID, but has made even better time
snce in Mr"BoI ner's hands.
The Auburn horse is sorrel. with for
white feet ard white face he Is not a
specially handsome nag to look at, but, as
a sporting butcher said, be is "a nasty one
20 60" He has, however. never been fairly
tried ia public, Mr.. eonner having bought him i'm
mediately after his first appearance on the turf
on the strength of Hiram Woodruff g remark,
that he was "ite fastest horse he ever drove"
Last, but greatest, so fa- asspeed Is concerned,
c mes the famous Dexter. This champion Of the
trOtting turf Of America is sturdy, short batfeled
oark-brown h. rse, with four white feetaA. Whit.
a rather wicked eye and flowing tail. There is
nothing particularly attractive about the appear
ance OF Dexte;; he is 10 the gaze Of the ordinary
lOoker-on very ordinary chunk OF horse."
as the Jerseymen say bat then he has made a
mle IN 2:l74 in harness. and 2:lS to saddle feats
which are, SO far, unequaled in the turf annals Of
The world.
This comt letes the list Of " stars" that now oc-
cupy Br. BCnner's stables. No such array OF re-
msrkable horses, nor any approach TO IL, was
ever before gathered together under the owner
ship of private gentleman 10 any country. And
when It is remembered that Mr.. Bonner has pur-
chased these horses for his own pleasure, that he
does not permit them 10 be driven for any wager
under any circumstances, nor will drive them him.
self for any such wager, the existence Of such
stud becomes The more extraordinary.
A curious circumstance, by the by, will be
noticed in come cton with these horses. IL will
he observed that Lantern, Lady Palmer, The Au-
bum and Dexter are each marked by two or four
white feet and white nose. These horses are or
hsve been avowedly the sovereigns, so to speak,
Of the turf, In their several degrees.