The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-09-29
GUYS GREAT WORK.
How the Son OF Kentucky Prince
Lowered Maud SIS Record


[From the New York TImes.l
The driving club of New York haG
the biggest day yesterday which 1t ha,
known since Jav-Eye-See and st.
| Julien contested on the old Fleetwood
track. The great event of the da,
which attracted the crowd was the ad
vertised attempt of Guy, the black sor
OF Kentucky Prince, to beat 2:133, the
fastest recorded time owe the track
made by the Queen of the Turf, Maud
S. Among the thousands who were
present, there were not half q dozen
who believed that the feat was posi-
BILE.
After the first heat of the 2:1S class
| Sanders sent Guy q warming up heat,
which was made in 2:273. He wac
then laid up until after the second
heat, when he appeared on the track
| with Sanders behind him. Splan &C
companied him in a sulky behind a
| saddle pony belonging to young Buck
| Houston, the son of j. Is. Houston,
Sanders nodded for the word at the
first attempt, and Guy went away with
that peculiar "stealing'' gait Of his,
which Gabe Case said was a perfect
copy of the gait of Gen. Butler. Splan
kept about five lengths behind him
with the runner, who seemed to be
having all he could do to hold his
place. When the watches clicked fol-
tine quarter, they showed PA seconds,
and it was plain that If the black geld.
ing did not lose his stride he would
accomplish the task set for him. He
kept straight and true along tho back
stretch and showed the half in 1:O4.
"The hill will try him." an old Fleet
wood habitue said. But 1t did not.
The black wonder seemed to let out
an extra link and climed up the stretch
which has brought many a good horse
to grief as steadily as If he had been
trained on it all his life. He lifted the
81 feet of rise in $50 seconds, making
the three-qusrters in 1894, with 34a
seconds left in which to break the re-
cord. Still gliding along with his far
reaching gait, his feet hardly appear
ing to clear the ground. lie swung
round into the stretch.
Then Splan applied the whip to his
runner, and with a shout drew q little
closer. Every n was on tiptoe, and
fearful that the pace and the urging
would send the gelding Oft his feet
But he held on like the kindest Of fin.
| ishers, and went under the wire &C
companied by a hurricane Of shoutl
from the hundreds who had helC
watches on him. Then every eye wa
turned a%nxiously to the judges stand
in which were MI. Archer,J. s. Smith
ex-Alderman Hughes, Boniface Hamil
ton and Secretary George Floyd Jones
The latter, who had made a wager
with w. ii. Waldron that 2:15 would
be beaten, snatched his hat from hi
head and waved it in triumph. A min
ute later Mr.. Archer hung out thu
time-2:l24. The record was heater
a tull second, and the people wen
wild. Sanders was taken up into thu
judges stand, where he acknowledged
the applause by dofing his blue Cal
and bowling. Sanders said after tn,
heat that if Splan had come up to hin
a little ooner he had no doubt that h
could have got the record down t
7:12. The reason Splan did not wa
that he was afraid that by crowdini
Guy too closely he might make hin
break. The performance was admit
ted by every one to be phenomenal
The track was not nearly as fast as
has been on other days of the meeting
although Superintendent John Sheri
dan has worked it into a better condi
ton than eve it has been before in tn
history of the club.
VT. Robert Bonner was not preser
to witness the performance. He sal
some time ago that when Maud s
record was lowered he would try {
recover the record, and the horseme
hope that before the season ends tn
great mare will be seen at Fleetwood
None of them have any doubt that st
can do the mile there several second
faster than 2:12$.