Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-08-14
MAUD S. AND ST. JULIEN.
The Best Time on Record, 2:11 81, Mad
by Both Horses ut Rochester.

The hest Time on Record, 2:11 3-4, Made
by Both Horses at Rochester.
Rochester, Aug. 12.-To-day was the
Rochester driving park. The announce. m
ment that Maud 8. and ST. Julien would
both be trotted, the latter to beat his own
best trotting record of 2:12s1 and the
former to beat this and Sleepy Toms
best pacing record of 2:1214, was enough
to attract multitude of spectators, who
went in throngs to the track.
At o'clock the California wonder and
king of the turf, st. Julien, was driven
out upon the track to the post of the
grand stand by Grin A. Hickoch, who is
part owner of the great trotter and al
ways handles him when on the track.
Prolonged applause and cheers rent the
alr as st. Julien was trotted around to
get heated for the greatest effort of his
life. He went down past the Judges
stand several times before Hickok nod
ded to the judges to give the word. Then
he darted around the track without a
running mate or anything else but his
driver to urge him, making his first quar-
ter in 80, the half mile in 107, the third
quarter in al and the mile in 2:13li,
the fastest trotting ever done on a Roch-
ester track. The crowd cheered and they
who We're betting that both horses would
lower their best previous record, now Of
ferred to give their opponents odds in the
pools at the rate of $50 to $50.
It was forty minutes later when Bair of
Cincinnati drove out the 6-year old mare,
Maud S.
Deafening cheers greeted both. Bair
nodded to the judges and Maud was
given the send off the first time she came
down the streatch. The track, weather,
and everything was in her favor, no less
than in st. Julien's. She sped away mag
niticently and the involuntary exclama-
tion Of many thousand witnesses was
Beautiful" She completed her flst
quarter in 32155, second in los, third in
1881 and the mile in 2:1124, an entire
second lower than the best trotting time
on record, and half a second better than
the best PAGER ever went. The widest
enthusiasm followed the performance
Everybody knew the best time on record
had been made before the timekeepers
had made their announcement, or were
consulted.
Bets now ranged $3.50 and $50 on
Maud against $50 and S75 on st. Julien,
as the better and faster trotter of the
| Two.
When st. Julien was brought out of
his second heat there was less enthusiasm
than before. but he got away in fine
shape and trotted to the end OF his first
quarter in 81 a, second in O424, third in
1889 and the mile in 2;11A, precisely
the same time made by Maud S. in her
first heat.
Each horse earned the special purse of
$4,000 offered to each, and Stone of Gin
cinnati refused to permit the mare to be
speeded again, while Hickok took the
same position. Maud S. was trotted
again, however, but she only made her
second mile in 2:222l, and was excused
from the third heat. St. Julien trotted
his third heat in the ordinary time of
4:241s.
Handsome testimonials were present.
ed the drivers of the king and queen OF
the turf. Thus terminated the greatest
trotting event the world has ever known