Connecticut western news., 1880-08-30
A Notable Horse.
ST. JULIEN, WHO MADE THE WONDERFUL TIME AT ROCHESTER,, FORMERLY IN A MILK WAGON F

MILK WAGON.
 The wonderful horse St. Julian vb;o1,
 trotted mile at Rochester, N. Y. in
 2:113, was raised in Orange Co.,, N. Y.
 and sold by MT. Joseph s. Dunnine to
 James Galway for $500. A correspon-
 dent gives the following interesting de-
 tails about the horse: "St. Julien was
 a natural born trotter; he never knew
 how to strike any other gait. I spent
 many day with MT. Cunning, and I
 know all about the horse, and Hickok,
 who now owns him, never would have
 bought him if he was not just what I
 tell you. Of course, St. Julien is a won-
 der, and his full brother, St. Remo,
 now owned, I think, by pr. H. A. Pool
 CT, owner of the Goshen Driving Park,
 and being handled by the man, if any
 one, who made St. Julien trotter-
 Billy Sargeant-is likely to be another.
 Now, if you want the full history of the early life of St. Julien, which has never
 been published, I can give it to you.
 Joe Dunning raised both horses on his farm between Denton and Middletown
 Orange County. There is about one year between their ages, and Volunteer is their father. Both horses were driven together in team for long time, doing farm work, road driving and marketin,o They were then colts, and Joe Dunnino had no idea that he had such valuable trotters. Neither was ever nervous to speak of. Indeed, and especially St. :. Julien-they were as docile and quiet as colts could possibly be. One of the principal features of the teams daily work was driving milk to the railroad station. This was how St. Julien was broken to harness, and it was about the first work he ever did; in fact, it was. I think, milk wagon that he first hauled along the road behind him, and. too. when he was but colt. Many a tune have driven the team to the station with milk myself, and St. Julien never
 bought of striking any thing but trot. He never showed the least sign of skit- tishness, and, what is more, never wob- bled all over the road like colts gener- ally do. He trotted square and level. and always straight ahead.
 "I remember once, when visiting Joe. we started out to go off to see a friend several miles away. We drove St. Ju- lien. The night was frightfully dark. and it was impossible to see the horse in front of us. Now, if there had been any nervousness about him, do you SUD- pose we'd started? We hadn't the least trouble with him. And so it was always with St. Julien until Joe Cunning sold him. The horse was more like an old mare-steady and reliable-than like a frisky, fretful and manageable young colt. Nature made St. Julien & level. honest trotter, and if any one is to be credited for developing the speed that was in him, Sergeant is the man. Every horseman who saw him trot the first year he went on the track knows this.
 Why, his performances that year speak for themselves. Just look at it. It was the first time he was ever in races. He started in the big circuit un- der the guidance of Sergeant, who made for his owner, MT. Galway, at least $2O, 900 that year in seven or eight races. l kept track of the horse after this at Cleveland until he had trotted six races. and In all of them he took first money. And mind you he won them all in three straight heats, and in no race did he make skip or even a hitch Don't that stamp him as natural born trot- ter? Like Goldsmith Maid, some of the best of American trotters have made their records by skipping and hitching, but St. Julien never in his life trotted | in any other way than like machine. ,