Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-29
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- WonderfR Speeding.
The grand trotting circuit: embracing meet
ings at Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Utica
and Hartford. inaugurated at Cleveland hast
week, witnessed some of the most remarkable
$rotting contests in the history of the sport.
Every event included in the rich programme
was a grand success, but the browning events
were the free for all on Thursday, and Rarus'
exhibition trot on Saturday, the most wonder
ful trotting event ever witnesseds Up to this
performance, Goldsmith Maid, the queen of
the turf, wore the honors for having made the
fastest mile, I'D, the fastest second heat, the
fastest three consecutive heats, her time
being ZIG :; 2l5A4, 2:l5, while the
fastest first heat. 2:154, and Lula with the
fastest third heat, 2:15, All these records were
wiped out or equalcd by Rarus Saturday, and
he stands to-day unchalledged as the speediest
trotting horse in the world. Here is his receras
First male 2l41laa, second 2l5, and third asa or
the three heats in "a seconds better than Gold
smith Maid. And when it is borne in mind
that this performance made on a track
heavy from rains by the previous day, the feat
stands out all the more wonderful. As this
wonderful horse is one of the attractions at
the Forthcoming State fair in st. Paul, his per
Sormance on this occasion becomes a matter of
special interest to our people. fa I'll "a
Rarus is a bay syelding, by Calklin's Abdal-
lab, dam by Telegraph, is owned by Mr.. r, B.
Conklin OF Greenpoint, L.. l., and is handled by
John Splan, of Cleveland, who will bring h, Id,
90 st, Paul. He began his trotting Id 1874, and
his march to the high honors of the turf was
very rapid In his first year he won several
races and made 81 record of 1881. In 1873 he
made the circuit in the 2:27 class and some of
the greatest flyers of the day succumbed to his
prowess, He won at Cleveland, getting { record
OF 1855; won at Rochester and Utica, and at
Hartford won in straight heats, and also car
ried off a gift purse of 81 ,000 getting a record
of 2:2Oal. In 1875, he had the softest kind of
a thing in the 2:20 class of the Septilateral
circuit. he was beaten at Cleveland by Nav
queen but won at the six remaining places, as
handy as possible, without reducing his
record, though it evident he could
clio so whenever forced. At Fleet
wood Park, October 26, he bea. a very fast
party, and won fifth heat in 2:2O, and closed
the season with that mark against him. The
: next winter he spent in Galifornia, and his
races with Goldsmith Maid are matters of his
/ tory. In one race he Tapped the mare out in
2:l4559, and beat her in another, getting a record
@of 2l914. Last season he made clean sweep
of the race for the 219 class in the grand
circuit, and won two freefor-all races besides,
only losing one heat, to Hopeful, at Hartford
He was closely pressed in most of his contests
by Lucille Golddust but had speed enough to
beat her every heat. He won six races and
a record of 2:16, made at Hartford This sea-
son ne has been barred in nearly all the free
for-all races, but is making exhibition trots.
The other brilliant performance of the week,
the free for-all had in it Great Eastern. also
secured for the State fair in this city, and it is
not improbable that others of the horses in
that wonderful performance will also be here.
The following is the record of the race, show
ID ing the fastest three heats ever made in regu-
lar contests 5f-s -
II fpl b
p Great Eastern. 3 d
IL Wy I. - ......4 b 3
ooneo'e'. ~; ..........5 5
Time, 21714, 2:15s4, 2I51s.
That neither of the horses were distanced
prising. ef 'Ai7
AS Great Eastern is to be in ST. Paul, the
following will be of interest: Great Eastern 10
a bay gelding and is the biggest trotter on the
turf, standing 1925 hands. He is owned by
Mr.. George Halnmill, of Rome N. Y. and e