Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-03
Il Proposed Male Track.
Turf, Field and Farm.

correspondent from New Haven writes:
Last month we had trottIng meeting
hero of three days duration which has Gre
ated a feeling that New Haven should have
a mile track for trotting purposes. A pro-
ject has been set agoing to accomplish the
same, and 1 take the liberty to write to you
for information. Please give me the cor
rect dimensions, the number of acres re-
quired, and other information pertaining
to the construction of a mile track.
At Hartford, the sister city of New
Haven, there is one of the best mile tracks
in the country, and the dimensions, grades
ana soil of it might be studied with profit.
Ii was there that Smuggler made his stall
lion record of 2:1514, and it was there that
St. Julien put 2:1l4 on the blackboard.
1t is fast and safe track, and 1t is patron
lied, when events of Importance are pen
ding, by the culture as well as
the yeomanry of New England. If our
New Haven friends do not care to copy the
track at Hartford, they should purchase a
level field of forty-two acres, and then en-
ploy competent civil engineer. Through
tbs center of the field draw straight line
of 40 yards, ard on each side of this line
and distance of 40 yards and two inches
from it draw parallel lines of equal length,
SO that the space between the two outer
lines will be $50 feet four inches. Drive
post at each end of the center line; fast.
en- cord to it, and extend the cord at
right angles for 40 yards two inches until
it touches the end of the outer line, and
then describe with the extreme
end of the cord an outer 20 between
the ends of the two CUTLER lines. The con-
tinuous outer line will be exactly mile.
Set the fence of the course three feet in on
the curves and straight sides from this
outer line and you will obtain track on
which horse in harness will be compelled
to tros full mile in going from wire TO
wire. IT has not been the custom to throw
the curves up on running tracks, but no
man can ride in sulky safely at rapid
gait around the fat curves of trottipg
track. Gov. Stanford, great railroad
man, and who has practical knowledge of
breaking and training, says that the
turns of trottipg track should
be thrown up like the curves
of railroad, and his training track at
Palo Alto was constructed on this prlnci-
pie. The soil should be mixture of loan
clay and sand. The Providence track, on
which Jay-Eye See made his record of
2:104, was rendered fast by paving: it, so
to speak, with bricks of sod. These bricks
weressix inches wide and they were placed
edgewise. This is expensive, and we
doubt if New Haven would care to make
the experiment. How lorg sod track
Will last and retain its elias
ITCHY is still en- open question. Should
a first-class track be built in the city where
branches of noble elms interlace across
the stress and where the intellectual
lights of Yale never pale, we will do what
We can to sustain it. We will bespeak for
it the patronage of those interested in pro-
noting the welfare of the turf, and we are
confident that the words will not fall upon
unhseding ears. Bat New Haven is SC
near Hartford that the management will
have to be energetic in order to command
success.