Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-04-13
Robert Bonnsr,s Stable.

Mr. Robert Bonner has issued in the
New York Sun, for the information of
his numerous friends, a catalogue of all
horses owned by him, including stations,
geldings, brood mares, mares in training
and youngsters from FIVE year olds to
yearlings, now at his farm in Tarrytown
and at his stable in New York city. The
total is Just 100. Probably no such val.
liable lot of trotting stock was ever col
lected under one owners roof before in
the United States. None of them, to quote
Mr. Bouner's catalogue, are for sale,
and not any of them will be until, from
natural 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 Pocahontas. The
following extract from Mr. Bonner's cat
alogue will be not only interesting hut
actual news:
In the first place we have Dexter, with
what is technically called record of
217i, made on Buffalo Park when it was
twenty feet eight inches over a
mile. 1t has since been reduced to an
exact mile, so some of its managers in
form 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 a
break or a slip. Then follows Grafton,
who was timed at Cleveland by large
number of wellknown gentlemen in
2151; Joe Elliott, who trotted a public
trial on Mystic Park, Boston, in 2:154 /;
Startle, who, four days before he was
five years old, with Commodore Dodge,
Robert Fletcher and Simeon Hoagland in
the judges stand, trotted previously
advertised trial in 2:193 he afterward
repeatedly trotted in 2:10 ON Fleetwood
Park; Pocahontas, the only horse besides
Startle that has ever trotted on Fleet
wood in 2:19, has since then trotted in
2;173 on the three quarter exercising
track on my farm; Wellesley Boy, who
has record as five.year. old of 2:264,
and who, when seven years old, trotted
on my track in 2:19I; Peerless, who car
ried the great trainer and honest driver,
the late Hiram Woodruff in 2:23l to
wagon, the fastest mile he ever drove
any horse in public or private; Moisey,
with record of 2:2t}, and a trial in
2:1S1; Music, with record of 1921 in a
fourth mile, and trial in 2:20} on a
three-quarter track, which was not
adapted to her long stride; John Taylor,
with a record on Fleetwood of 2:25;
Walton, the four. year-old, by Burger,
that trotted trial last August, several
months before bought him at Pough-
kecpsie, in 2:27l; Erie, who has the
fastest four-year-old record-2:28t, and
Lady Stout, who has the fastest three
year old record-2;29. In addition to
the above are the following, who have
trotted in $50 or better: Astoria, full
sister to Dexter; Mamie b., by Edward
Everett; Lady Hughes, by Jupiter; Ada
Duroc, by Messenger Duroc; Uncle Sim,
by Privateer; Malice, by Woodford Nam
brino; Billy Button, by Edward Everett;
Bruno, by Rysdyk's HambletOnian, and
Prince Imperial, by William Welch.
In my opinion, the most extraordinary
performance ever made by any trotting
horse was made by Dexter, when drove
him to road wagon on Prospect Park in
2'21} He carried 319 pounds on that
occasion. Among the performances TO
road wagon, at all distances from quar-
ter of mile up to two miles, by horses
included in my stable, driven by myself,
may be mentioned the following: Startle,
a quarter of a mile to road wagon in
323 seconds; Dexter, half mile to a
road wagon in 1061; Dexter, mile to
road wagon in 2:213, and Lady Palmer
and Flatbush Maid, two miles to road
wagon in 5:01f.