Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-12-27
TRorTINa IN EUROPE.
They Have ut Last Taken to tho Amsri-
can ItacinY Plan.

Tney Have ut Last Taken to tho Ameri-
can RaclnY Plan.
From til. N. Y. Star.
Captain Chester, author OF ECO and
under," and an authority upon turf mat
ters, tells me that trotting is fast growing
In favor on the othor side of the wafer.
"On the other side," he said, England,
France, Germany and Austria have all
taken 1t up, especially the three latter, and
in Franco an American driver, oven of
mediocre ability, can make n handsome
living. Only tho other day a man called
on me, who IL by no means a frst-class
man with the ribbons. He won't over to
Paris about year ago, and told me what
chiefly amused him was the get-up OF the
drivers. Their get-up is topboots, with
Jockey jacket anc cap of most fantastic
design. They carry no whip, but niinia-
turs club. The rules ftrotting over there,
he told me, are vastly different to ours.
There a horse IL disqualified according to
the number of times he breaks. Instead.
AZ over here, Of bringing the horse back to
the gait with the reins, tho French driver
rises In his numbering cart and belabors
his steed on the rump with tho club until
he or she returns to the trot. An American
is always scoopsd up by the owners of
trotters over there, and can get a. much
work to do rs he pleases. Their tracks are
on the grass, and the course often four
miles In fact that Is the favorite distance.
"ln troiting races they handicap. tha
horses by distance allowances, exactly the
same az handicap races among mon."
"ls there much Of "A demand for trotters
by the foreign markets?"
"Yes, much more 50 than Is generally
known. The continental countries OF Europe
pay extraordinary prices for our best
stock, but the South American republics,
especially the Argentine, give even better
prices. In South America there are now
many ranches breeding trotting stock, and
they don't seem to care what price they
pay us for slres and dams"
"Do you think Maud SIS record OF a:Qst
IL likely to be soon beaten2" -
Yes, do. Think SUNG! WIZ break 1t
bat suhoi WI be only four years old
neAt , yea / said, 'and Maud 5. was
re- nine when she made her wonderful
"That is so," he replied. "I have seen a
horse do the half mile In one minute. The
surroundings were all that could be de-
sired and The track a downhill one. 1t
showed, however, that the pace was there
II only you could keep up the stamina of
the animal. Sunol is downhill mare.
She stands three inches higher at the rump
than at tho withers, and is to me the very
epitome OF trotter, and may perhaps real
ize our dream of two minutes mile"
"Do You know what Mr.. Bonner gave
for Sunol2"
"No, do not, but he has said between
forty and tifty thousand dollars, and / ex-
pect 1t was S45, ,0O0."
"What induced Governor Stanford to
part with the mare?"
Not money, you may be sure. His
great ambition is to breod the best lrotter,
and he and Mr.. Bonner have had different
ideas on the subject. When Mr.. Bonner
made an offer for Sunol, IL was an ack now
ledgment that the governor had won, and,
besides, Mr.. Bonner's ambition Is to own
the tastes ttrotter, no matter where 1t comes
from, and he would be the first man to bow
10 the success Of Il friend"