Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-06-17
BONNER ON TROTTERs
what TrOtting Horses Have Do,o ond
Will Do.
rOOi Selling Not Necessary to the Sue.
cess of Races.
popularity Of the Different BREEDING
Grounds.
From the New York Tribune. !


pictures Of score of horses that bo,,c NJ, ~.
renoWn. Lying around promiscnonsI,
are horseshoes with histories of fast noiIa
10 tell, and when Mr.. Bonner writes h
dips his pen into an inkstand made of ~,
! upper Jaw of horse. The trottino, bor1,
Is tavorite theme with Mr.. Bonner on
W. eh NOT overwhelmed by business care:
ne Is Always ready to talk upon it. Il
terday he said: '0i yes
THINK 1t would be a benefit to the
morse interests of this country if pool
selling on races were stopped, and per
sSonally should be pleased to see strict
laws IN regard to it rigidly enforced
gambling degrades the sport. The great
opJecuon to horse-racing has ALWAYS beer
the gambling. A better class would NAT.
ronize the races if there were no pool
Selllng and the sport would be elevated
III is not necessary for the success OF
racing that there should be anv such
thlng. 1t is comparatively modern in
novahon, and it is folly for an association
10 think that their financial success de-
ponds upon their percentage from the
pool-box. Take it way back in 1929.
when Eclipse and Henry ran their great
race over the Union course. There was
no pool-selling then, it had never been
heard OF, yet 10000 people went to see
the race, and among the number there
were such men as Martin Van Buren, and
John Randolph. At that time our popu-
latlon was not one-quarter what it is now.
80 II pool-selling really fosters and bene-
hts racing there should be an attendance
OF 800 900 people at first-class race I'M
der present circumstances. Trots be-
tween well-known horses, such as Flora
Temple and George NJ. Patchen, always
drew large crowd, but there was no
pool-boX then. Buffalo made its reputa-
ton as a great trotting centre before the
innovation.
"ln trotting, pool-selling is particularly
bad. 1t gives the drivers an opportunity
to make combinations and do what they
call working the pool-box' This thing
has gone so far that there is hardly race
that has not faint of fraud about it, and
it is seldom that we hear of the Best
horse winning. Even if the race is not
actually thrown, a heat or two is dropped,
SO as to
FIX THE BETTING.
Why, l told one of our best-known
drivers only the other day that they were
killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
Pool-boX manipulation is killing trotting,
there is no mistake about it. The pool
business is run in the interest of few
men, and they are the ones that are
making all this hue and cry about racing
being ruined if it is stopped. What sur
prises me is that SO many gentlemen
favor it. If it is SO, and racing cannot
be successfully carried on without it, then
it seems to me that the love for true
sport has died out and been supplanted
by love for gambling The st. Julian
Jay-Eye-See race at Fleetwood, however,
would Indicate otherwise. The day was
bad and everything was unfavorable; yet
look at the crowd that attended, No one
believes that the great majority went
there to gamble. No, they went there to
see a genuine contest between two great
horses; such a race will always draw.
The outlook for owners of trotters for the
coming season is good, and they can put
trotting on solid basis if they will only
leave the pool-boX alone.
"There is bright future for the breed
ers Of trotting horses. The prices at the
spring sales in Kentucky were never
higher than they were this year In
Orange county they are not so good, how
ever, because the great demand is for
Kentucky-bred horses, and | will tell you
why. There has always been q desire on
the part of purchasers to get the best
there is in the market, and a dash of
thoroughbred blood has been appreciated.
Thirty years ago Maine was in the lead,
as Maine Messengers progeny was widely
sought after, and they were considered
the best. Then
VERMONT CAME TO THE FORE,
And for a number of years had things
her own way; there were some ideas of
old Messenger taken to Vermont. Then
Orange county began producing the best
stock, and we all looked to it for our
trotters and roadsters. Kentucky breed
ers came to Orange county, purchased
some of the best sons of Hambletonian,
and taking them West, crossed them
with mares with strong infusions of
thoroughbred blood. and now they carry
off the palm. They got all the action
that we had, and the thoroughbred blood
in the dams gives the colts the stamina
to keep it UP. When Dexter was king,
we all thought he was the acme of breed
ing, but we see it can be improved. No
one believes that Maud S. or Jay-Eye-
See could trot as fast as they do were 1t
not that their granddams were thorough
breds. Maud's is by Boston and Jay
Eye-See's by Lexington, the two great
est four-milers of their day. Jay
Eve-See is by a brother of Dexter, and
Maud bv another son of old Hamble-
tonian, Harold. If wanted to get per-
former would not breed trotter to
thoroughbred mare, but if l wanted TO
get brood mare l would.
GIN speaking of Dexter, it recalls to
nv mind that when bought him he had
the best record, 2:174. paid $35, 900
for him. Then, some years after, L pur-
chased Rarus for $50, 1000; he headed the
LIST at that time, with record OF 2:l34.
Now. Maud S., that l paid $4,000 Tor
has a record of 50 :09H; You see there
is lust four seconds difference IN the re-
spective records: I'LL oo2
GLOW fast do think trott2r VIII 60
That is a hard question to answer De De
fore Flora Temple trotted III Z:I974, l I.C
not believe that 2:2O would ever oe
beaten. Then 1 thought When De4 1J
made his performance that the llnlls s i tIo
been reached. Old Hiram Woodr9n, .nH
smartest of all the horsemen, useo " 'olr
me that horse would trot In Z:Io' nov
7 think that 2 :05 may be reached; ilo%
about Maud S., how fast VIII sue
Rair tells me, and l think mysen, 1alao
Che onaht to trot somewhere between
2 :07 and 2 :OS. Ny opinion Oh
DouBLE-TEAM TRoTTING
1o that if YOU get two horses that arr, are
Is It1a' ,ai+ed and tempered that they
can trot together several r secod diEide the
than either can singly. lhey aloru0 In
Load and encourage one aliollIo 'o,,,d