New-York tribune., 1884-11-16
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c,f,cUJNC TIE RECORD.

..o,,or ond for his owner, Individually anu col
;ectivolv Old Father Time began the season
with good deal of spirit Tor 80 vencraDie
! nersonage. and defantly waved "the record
in the faces of all ambitious quadrupeds. but
the moss grown scythe-bcarer has been smitten
with a succession OF such staggering Diows as
mi,,bt fell even John H. Sullivan, ana Ia no"
rrono in the dust with Robert Bonner standing
nrnudly ON his neck waving the Stars ana
Strines. while Isidor Cohnfeld is performing
will dance of exnltation on his waistband, and
William II. Vanderbilt, Frank Work and }. l..
Case are gloating over the prpstrste form o.
their old adversary from whose nerveless manu-
" the record" has fallen, shattered INTO COUNT
less fragments.
The cfIete nations Of the Old World must
shudIcr as they view these new evidences ot the
procre. sive spirit of America. Where uhder
tho shadow of tottcriug thrones and crumOlIng
castles can be found "a Maud 5. with her mile III
u.oo 81 ora matched team like Maxev Cobb
and Meta Medium with their mile IN 2;i" "-f
All Europe might be secured from John o Groats
to the Golden Horn, from Gibraltar to the Urai
range. and not one animal coud be ionnd 'haC
could trot within haiing distance even Oh sucl
lesser ornaments of the track rs Jay-tve-Scc'
Phal!as. Aldine, Edward and Dick SwlVciler'
If the Emperor William wishes To prolDng his
enfcebled years let him import par oil Ameri-
can trotters of the 2:lG class and give frincc
bismarck his dust as he flies down Potsdam
Lane. If the furtive and elusive Car desires to
lauvh the NhilIsts to scOrn and take an airing
without peril of bursting bombs or pistol shots,
le, him straightway send an extraordinary en- o
bassy to New York and enter into negotiations
with Mr. Cohnfeld Seated behind MaXey Cobb
and Meta Medium he could fash along the
Neyski Prospckt at a speed which no hand
grenade could check. When the bomb was
ready to burst the happy Father of all the
Russias would be hull down in the dim per-
splctive behind a whirlng cloud of dust. If Mr..
Gladstone wishes to forget all the stnSs and
stabs of little Randolph Churchill, ho should
open diplomatic correspondence with Mr'
Bonner. The fortunate posscssor OF the fastest
trotter on earth would not sell him Maud ,.
OF course not. If the Grand Old Man should
offer him the entire debt of Great Britain Tor
the Queen of the Track he would wave 1t away.
There was once n millionaire who sold Maud
s. But he conldn't afford To keep her. Mr.
Bonner can-and will. So Mr.. Gladstone must
give ND all hope of Maud. But MIR. Bonner VIII
no doubt accommodate him with Kecne Jim or
almost any horse in his stable except the unap
proachable majesty herself and then the Prime
Minister of England, as he shoots through Hyde
Park throwing dust i'll the eyes OF the aStonlshed
aristocracy, can fancy GordOa back in London,
safe and sound and ut the head of the Salvation
Arme, Parnell in Patagonia, Ireland Liberal to
a man, and the House OF Lords reduced to a
station secondary to that of the Commons.
There is nothing like driving a fast trotter to
keep up a mans spirits and make him sangune.
But in all seriousness the evolution of the
American trotter is one of the most impressive
and interesting things in the whole history of
the animal kingdom. The representative horse
of to- day, whether runner, trotter or draught
horse, is vastly superior to any creature that
the Greeks or Romans ever saw Study the
great Greek frezes. make yourself familiar
with every equine figure that ancient sculpture
has bequeathed to the modern world, and the
conclusion is irresistible that the horse of an
| tiauity was coarse, numbering, ungainly brute
compared with the horse of to-day. The fleet
footed coursers of Achilles hurried that hero
into battle at Il pace that one OF Jacob Sharp's
cross-town cars now often equals. The bull
headed and bull -ncckcd charger of Alexander
| never reached a speed that is not surpassed
every day at Brighton Beach. Even llad,n's
Arabian steed could not approach the cclerty
of modern thoroughbred. The best OF
Arabians have met thoroughbreds of only mod
crate meritrApd fallen far behind. Our best
trotters ha*e"a generous infusion of thorough
bred blood and show an ambition and intelli-
gcnce that no beasts of mcaner lineage can
parallel To the merit OF the stock IA well ms
to the wide knowledge, keen judgment and un-
falling enthusiasm of such men as Robert
Bonner, is due the amazing progress in few
years from the 2;1s of Lady Suffolk 10 the
2:DD i 4 of Maud 5. The familiar definition of
a straight line IL that it is the shortest distance
between two points. The familiar Character
istic of American enterprise is its detcrmna-
ton 10 get over that distance in the shortest
titno The AmpIicau trottcr il doing IL