Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-04-12
ROBERT BONNER's HORSES.
One Hundred of the Best Bred
and Fastest TrOiters in the
World.

From the New York Worldl
Mr.. Robert Bonner yesterday issued, for
the information of his numerous friends, a
catalogue Of all horses owned by him, in
cluding stations, geldings brood mares,
mares in training and youngsters from five
year to yearlings, now at his farm near
Tarrytewn and at his stable in the city. The
total is just enc hundred, the names and ped
igrees of which will be found below, Prob
ably no such valuable lot of troiting stock
was ever collected under one owners roof be-
fore in the United States. None of them, to
quote Mr.. Bonner's catalogue, ''are for sale,
and not any of them will be until, from nat
ural increase, the number becomes too large
for my accommodations" The list includes
Dexter and three full sisters, a son and
daughter of Flora Temple, the famous mares
Peerless; Lady Palmer, Flatbush Maid, and
Pochahontas. All admirers of trotting have
long known of Mr.. Bonner's peculiar fancy
to not only own the fastest trotters in the
country, but his persistent refusal to allow
any horses that he owns to trot' for money, or
to appear in any public race Consequently,
the actual speed of many or the horses named
is only known to Mr.. Bonner and his intimate
friends, SO that the following extract from
Mr.. BonneI's catalogue will be not only in
teresting, but actual news:
In the first place we have Dexter, with
what is technically called record of 2:174,
made ON Buffalo Park when it was twenty
seven feet eight inches over a mile. 1t has
since been reduced to an exact mile, so some
OF its managers inform. me, and is now at
least three seconds faster than it was then.
Five thousand people saw him trot on another
slow track (Fashion) in 2:16 without break
or slip Then follow Grafton, who was
timed at Cleveland by large number of well
known gentlemen in 2 159; Joe Elliott, wto
trotted public trial on Mystic Park, Boston,
in 2;15t; Startle, who, four days before he
was five years old, with Commodore Dodge,
Robert Fletcher, and Simeon Hoagland in the
judges stand, trotted a previously advertised
trial in 2;19aa; he afterward repeatedly trotted
in 2:19 on Fleetwood Park. Pocahontas. the
only horse besides Startle that has ever trot-
ted on Fleetwood in 2:19, has since then trot.
ted in 2:174 on the three-quarter exercising
track on my farm. Wellesley Boy, who has
a record as a five year old of 2264, and who,
when seven years old, trotted on my track in
2 19t; Peerless, who carried the great trainer
and honest d liver, the hate Hiram Woodruff,
in 254 to wagon, the fasttss mile he ever
drove any horse in public or private; Molsey,
with record of 2.2l33, and a trial in 21s4;
Music, with a record of 2.21l in a fourth
mile, and trial in 2.203 on a three-quarter
track, which was not adopted to her long
stride; John Taylor, with a record on Fleet
foot of 2 %; Walton, the four year old, ty
Burger, that.trotted a trial last August, sew
trll months before bought him, at Pough.
keepsie, in 2.21iI; Eric, who has the fastest
four year-old record-2.2S 2S4i; and Lady Stout,
who has the fastest three year old record
229. In addition to the above are the
following, who have trctted in 9. 80 or better;
Astoria, full sister to Dexter; Mamie b., by
Edward Everett; Lady Jupiter; Ada Duroc;
Uncle Sim, by Privateer; Malice. by Wood
ford Mambrino; Billy Button, by Edward Ev
erett; Bruno, by Rysdyk's Hambetonian,
and Prince Imperial, by William WJih. In
my opinion, the most extraordinary perform
ance ever made by any trottiIg horse was
made by Dexter when drove him to road
wagon on Prospect Park in 2.21a. He carried
319 ponnds on that occasion. Among the
performances to road wagon at all distances
from quarter of mile up to two mics by
horses included in my stable, driven by my
self, may be mentioned the following
| Startle, qnar;er of nile TO a road wagon in
62A seconds; Dexter, half mile to a road
wagon in 1.05k; Dexter, a mile to road wagon
in 2212, and Lady Palmer and Flatbush
! Maid two miles to road wagon in 5.0l4.