Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

heats, and reduced the record to :23I.
Belle Echo, Director, Annie Laurie,
Clemmie G., Alcyone, and Alexander
Button were the prominent three-year-
olds of 1880, but Belle Echo's 2 :2sa was
the fastest mile recorded. The succeed
ing one was Phil Thompson and Sweet
hearts year. The former met Director,
Clemmie G., Tucker and Mamie at Chi
cago, in July, and gave them year and a
beating, trotting his three heats in 2:25-
2:24f-2:2l like racehorse. He was
the first three-year-old with Wilkes
blood in his veins to beat 80, and he
almost placed his name in the 2 20 list.
Californa-bred youngsters began to
attract attention in 1850, when Fred
Croker, two-year-old, trotted in 2 .2ji,
and Sweetheart, filly of the same age,
in 2:263. The Palo Alto colt was not
started as a three-year-old, but Bonita
and Wildflower, pair of two-year-ods
by Electioneer, were given records of
2 ;24d and 2 n respectively, while Kinda
Rose, a yearling, finished her mile in
1861. Sunny Slope and its Sultan fillies
was not idle. Sweetheart reduced her
record to 2 :23i, and Eva, a two-year-old,
closed the year with 2 ~ to her credit.
1882 was an off year among the two
and three-year-olds. The Sultan filly Ne
luska's 2 :304 was the fastest among the
former, and Algath's 2:25i the best
among the latter.
| In 1888 Palo Alto sent a stable contain
ing the three-year-olds Kinda Rose ana
Helen (by Gen. Benton) East, and met
her rivals upon their own tracks. Ken
lucky was represented by Elvira, Fugue,
Early Dawn, Lizzie Wilkes, Epaulette,
Wildmont, Prince Edward, and Wilkes
Boy. Fugue met and defeated Helen.
but Kinda Rose never lost heat. and
closed the campaign by trotting the third
heat of her last race in 2:l9b. Sallie
Benton, Lucilla, and Centre were at the
same time winning honors in California,
each one of them entering the 2 80 list,
while Carrie c. as two-year-old trotted
in 2;273. Antevolo and Bedford were
the only three-year-olds to enter the 2 80
list in 1884, but neither of them trotted
within ten seconds of the record. In
the four-year-old Elvra and Sallie Ben
ton each beat 2:20, the latter reducing
the record to 2:17i, while Patron, Eagle
Bird, Greenlander, and Stamboul APP
peared among the two-year-olds.
The following year was the greatest in
the history of three. year-old trotting
Patron, Silverone. Manzanita. Greenlan.
der, Iowa, CRANKY, Nelson, and STAN.
boul were carrying the colors of theil
respective owners, and although the last
two never met the giants of the veal
their performances were great ones
Manzanita was awarded the palm of vic
tory at Chicago, but Patron not only de
feated his rivals at st. Louis but also
equalled the worlds record at Lexington
in that memorable third heat with Sill
verone.
The three-year-olds of 1856 were a YER,
superior lot, but there were no Patron
or Silverones among them. Wild Rake
2 :224 was the fastest of the year, but tn,
performances of Pearl Medium, Bermu
da. Nutbreaker, Lena Wilkes, Diatonic
: Sunrise Patchen, Nettle Leaf, Sphinx
Newton, and Kentucky Hambletonial
were very creditable. All of the abov
except Nutbreaker, Diatonic, and Will
Rake, who were not trained, hav
been prominent four-year-olds this sea
son. Bermuda trotted in 2: 22; Sphinx
2;23; Pearl Medium, 2 :23; Nettle Leaf
2 ;23t; Newton, 2:2S4, and the other
were well up in their races.
All of the three-year-olds in the Eas
this season have been cast into the shad
by Susie S. and Houri, although Mamie
Wood, Ben Hur, Brown, Cheltenham
Princess Russell, and Linnette hav
shown good form. Houri trotted re
peat mile at Lexington in 2:l9$, an,
Susie $. finished the third heat of rae
at st. Louis in 2 20
Sable Wilkes and Soudan were tn
NdiiioIHid claillplons. SOuuan trOtteQ Il
80, but sable Wilkes defeated hir
whenever they met, and on Saturday las
swept away all records by trotting mill
against time in lis. He is the secon
grandson of George Wilkes to hold tn
) honor, and the second horse to obtain
in trial against time.
The age records now reads as follows
: Yearling record-hlly,. sudie d ......... 49,
l Two-year-old record-colt Shamrock. 25
{ Twoyear-old record-gelding Fred
, Crocker.. .............. :25i
Two year-old record-filly, Wildfower 81
Three-year-old record-colt, Sable
Wlkes'...'..... .........................2 Is
Threey earold record-gelding, Phil
thompson ................... ........... q
!. Three-year- old record-illy, linda Rose 49,
Four.year old record-colt, Palo Alto. 2 :20l
Four-year.old record-gelding, Jay Eye
See........ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ;l9
Four.year. old record>-filly, Manzanita 2 :l6
, Five-year-old record-colt, Patron...... 2l4l
Five-yearold record-gelding. Jay-Eye-
see .........................2 l0i