Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-14
The 80 List of 1881.

me .oO 6fSt VI 1901
We give below list of the trotters entering
the $50 list the present season, prepared bs
the Chicago Times. In connection with this
table the Times presented list of the horses
which reduced their recent records during the
season, and also of those who did not, which
two tables are withheld for next week. Com
menting upon the remarkable showing made
by these tables, the Times says:
The Times here with presents a complete list
of the horses which have trotted winning
heats in 2:30 or better during the season just
closed. The roster Is an extended one, en-
bracing the names of $50 animals, which have
trotted an aggregate of 1915 heats at or with
In the specified rate. The season of 1850 was
considered wonderful on, not only in the
reduction of the lowest previous record In
harness by second and half, but on account
of the large number OF fast performances, en-
bracing an unusually wide range of animals.
But whatever the triumphs of that season,
they must pale before the glories of 1881, in
which the record of nearly all ages and all
ways of going has been blotted out and new
figures substituted. The yearling, the 2year-
old, the 3-year- old, and the all-aged records in
harness, the pacing records in harness, and
the double team record have all been
obliterated, and the table of best perform
ances at one mile will almost have to be made
anew. The immense strides which the trot-
ting g-horse is making is shown by the amazing
increase in the number of 2:30 performers
since the first heat was trotted in that time
a number vastly larger in proportion than the
Increase in the number OF animals. IL was
only thirty-six years ago that 230 was the
best performance on the turf, and the specta-
Gle has been presented this year of a 2-year
old covering mile at rate which would
have distanced the original 2:30 performer,
with twenty-five yards to spare.
In 1858 the best mile in harness was the 2:21
of Highland Maid. In 1859 Flora Temple
electrified the sporting world by being the
her 2:194 stood as the best on record. Then
the white faced little brown gelding Dexter
eclipsed her performance with 2.174, and
since his day the flyers have become numerous
and the reduction of time
STEADY AND MARVELLOUS,
until now 2:10I is the mark that the ambi-
tious of 1882 will have to aim at. Of the 259
names represented 134 for the first time en-
tered the list, seventy were already in it
and reduced their records, while fifty-fve
previously within the ''magic circle did not
lower their time. Twenty-three ami
mails are credited with a mile in
2:20 or better, but there were
quite number that beat those figures as sec
ond, third, or fourth horses, but did not win
the heats, and therefore failed to be credi ted
with the time. For example, the little chest
nut stallion Hannis, quite q prominent figure
in the list since 1876, does not this year appear
at all, though he was contestant in many
races in which 2:20 was beaten.
Perhaps the most extraordinary feature of
the season has been the wonderful speed shown
by young horses. As of late years the breed
ing of trotters has become business of great
magnitude, the result of the expenditure of
brain and capital is shown in the earlier de-
velopment of the animals, for the 2-year-olds
and 3-year.olds are now advanced in stature
and substance as were the 4-year-olds and
5-year-olds of generation back, and the trot-
ter in this respect is approaching more and
more the thoroughbred.
But six years since Blackwood's 2:31 was
the best S-year.old time on record. This year
Phil Thompson lops off ten seconds, and the
echoes of applause barely subside before the
news is flashed across the wires from the
golden shores of California that 2-year-old
has, with apparent ease, accomplished the feat
cons idered so wonderful when made by the
Kentuckian. Turfmen remember distinctly
the sensation that the black colt Doble, then
2 years old, created in turf circles as recently
as 1875, by trotting mile in 2:40X, a record
ehaced two years later by $3.50, whose 2:S1
beat Doble's about ten seconds, and now her
time is reduced in like manner by the fleet
footed Wildfower. Then, to cap the climax,
come the California young things, Pride and
Hindoo Rosa, and cut Memento's yearling
record of 2:s6x by 12H and 19K seconds, re-
spectively, on the same day.
The tables presented below need no particu-
lar comment. They are figures and speak for
themselves. Where performances seem to
merit special mention from the youth of the
performer, the ages will be found in parenthe-
ses following the names. Where so many
have done so well 1t would seem lnvidious to
particularize, but such as Maud s., Trinket,
Kate sprague, so-so, Piedmont, Santa. Claus,
sou, Macleod, Wildfower, and other distin-
guishsd performers of the younger generation,
cannot but impress the reader with the great
possibilities of the future American trotter.
THE 2:sO LIFT OF 1881.
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