The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1878-08-23
THE TRofTER RARUs

For an instant at my side
Could my sinfulness endure
Iou beside me white and pure
THE TROfTER RARUS.
E,ls Great Feat the Gossip Of Local cfeie6s-
"reminiscences Of Fast Tine
The unprecedented perfornapc2 III
RarnslLt s2Suhaio on dtu tsiEy 81, ~
mile in his thiI i heat in 2:133 and ssTip-
ping the regal honers of the trottin turf
50 long and honorably worn by thibraye
old mare now engaged in maternal cares
at Fashion Stud farm, was a tuitful
topic OF conversation among the turfmen
in the city on yesterday. Naturally
the records of the past were bought
up by way OF comparison, from "2:4O
on the SHELF down. The triumths of
the now dead queen of her time, Flora
Temple, were recited; how her record of
2:19a, the first that had passed below the
twenties, remained untouched for years
till bettered a couple of seconds BY the
blaze-faced son of Rysdyk's Hambleto-
nian, Dexter, now retired from the turf,
and an inmate of Mr.. Robert Bonner's
stables, with record of 2:l73. Bonner
bought him in the belief that he was the
best horse in America, and Offered the
round sum of $1,000 for any animal
that could equal his record. Everybody
looked upon it as piece of cheap "blow''
that never could cost him a cent, and it
never did, not for the reason that this
record was never equaled, but because
he didn't care TO, or was not given
an opportunity to invest. While
his much-heralded proposition was
scarcely dry in the ink that
printed it, Goldsmith Maid, the trim and
speedy daughter of Alexsnder's Abdal-
lah, did her mile over the Milwaukee
course in 2'16 and a fraction. This was
another unprecedented piece of work,
and little confidence was put in the re-
port Of il a cry was raised that either
the track was short, or the time was in
correctly given, for, it was argued, no
horse could doit. Disbelief was carried
to such an extent that an eastern sport
ing jouFnal, in order to determine the
matter, sent out a Especial commission
er," and had the track carefully meas
ured. 1t was a seven days wonder. But
the mare had not shown her best pace
yet. Barred in the free5for- sH, she q <
-
no record but her own to 20
against, began whiting away at that,
cutting it down by degrees till, at Mys-
tic park, Boston, September 2, 1874, she
made her best time and record that
remained untouched till the performance
OF the big bay gelding at Cleveland,
when it was duplicated in a thild heat,
and was, to that extent, better than the
mares which was made in a second heat.
And she showed her breeding none too
soon, for the fast ones began to appear
thicker and thicker, close in her rear.
The twenties had become slow, and
dozen horses were cutting into the teens.
August 10, 1875, the get of AlexsnAer's
Norman, Lula, came very close TO her,
making the best third heat on record, 2.15,
over the Buffalo course, the scene of
Rarus' recent triumphs. A year
later, August 81, 1876, the wonderful
stallion, Smuggler, at Hartford, made
the fastest first heat on record,
and the fastest time ever made by q
stallion, being accredited with 2;l5t
These remained untouched till the
mighty offspring of Conkling's Abdallah
let himself out to take all the honors. At
Cleveland he stripped the honors Of the
third heat from Lula with PA, and
paled the lustre in the crown of the
queen, besides taking from Snuggler the
honors of the first heat in 1:l4l, three
quarters of a second faster than that of
the stallion Not satisfied with that, at
Buffalo he escaped all other perform
ances, and went to the front of trotting
horses. Besides this, it being practically
a fourth heat, as he had received the ego"
four times, he robbed Lula of her re-
manning honor, the fastest fourth heat sn
record, 2:l7, made by the mare at Ro-
chester, August IA, 1875. His honors
are then summed up thus: The fastest
mile on record the fastest first, third
and fourth heats; the fastest two and
the fastest three consecutive heats,
Surely his name was prophecy.
1t should be understood that the time
made at Buffalo was record notwlth
standing the fact that he trotted against
a running horse, just as it would have
been if he had had trotting competitors.
The afixiDg of a record depends upon
the performance being made for some
consideration, no matter how small. A
wager of bottle of wine is as potent 70
that end as one Of $4,000. The ques
tion now is, will he, like Goldsmith
Maid, having nothing else TO beat, beat
himself There are not wanting those
who believe that he will, and that before
the circuit is closed, the best record VIII
not be above 2:12, possibly less. 1t ls
big thing to whittle of the little seconds
-TChicago Times.