The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-16
BONNER ON HORSES.
He Writes a Letter About His
Trotters Training On.
JACKSON MAY MEET SULLIVAN,
John Wants to Measure Reach With Peter
Mace Thinks the American Cham
ion Superior to Everybody.

Especial TO THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Robert Bonner has
sent to the World over his signature the
following interesting letter:
."As your reporter called at my residence
sSsst evening to see if there was anything
new in the horse world, it has occurred to
me to give you something over my own sig
nature l have just read in the California
Breeder and Sportsman not over courteous
article in which the editor asks: who has
ever heard of horse training after Mr.
Bonner purchased him2' Then he suggests
that a beginning be made for farm for in
formation in that line. Perhaps it may inter
est the public if 1 begin at my farm and
state that there have been bred or raised a
gearing, the only yearling have ever had
in harness, that trotted a quarter in A
seconds; a two-year old that trotted a 2:31
gait: a three-year- old that trotted 2:l6
gait; a four year-old that trottted full
mile in :228I, and an aged horse, Maiolica,
) that has public record Of 2;l5. Besides
these | have raised number of horses
that have trotted in the neighborhood OF
2:20 But as the editor OF the California
Breeder and Sportsman wants to know ABOUT
these that have trained on since they
came into my possession, l will try and
crafty him. In the first place l will give
him Il shining example:
"When Maud S. came into my possession
she was lame in her off hind leg and had
been lame in it so long that Bair, her old
trainer. said: No veterinary surgeon can
stop that lameness.' After she was shod
under my directions, l trained her that
year to beat her record. She trotted in
2:OglI She trained on the following year
SNSOt merely to beat the world but to beat
1herself by trotting in 2:0S$I.
fR lrus came into my possession with
4. re cori of 2:1314. Afterwards timed him
in 2:llH.
Edwin Forrest had, just before I bought
him, trotted III Play i'll an exhibition mile
at Hartford. Since owned him he has trot-
ted in 2:1l%.
Music, when bought her, had a record
OF 2:2l15. She has trotted for me IN 2:lS$4
MAY Arid had record OF 2:2l. Since
have owned her she has trotted in2:lS%.
Keen Jim had a record of 2:l9, but after
| bought him l timed MIN in 2:l44.
''Molsey hau arecord of 2:2l$I. l reduced
her time to 2:lS4.
sJohn Taylor had record Of 2:25, and
he trUttcd for me in 2:lg;I.
"WelleSley Boy with record OIL 20 re-
duced it to z:l914
sPocahontas, for whom gave more than
for any other horse ever purchased except
Maud 5. and Sunol. had a record of = :26
when l bought her. l have timed her since
l owned her in 2:l64.
..Startle. for whom 1 paid $4,000 when
he was q three-y ear-old, had record OF
2:3j. He trained on with only my road
driving, to trot publicly advertised trial,
as d i've year-old, in 2:l9%, without hay
ing been even one night out of my city
stable He was the first horse to turn
Fleetwood track in 2:l9.
Maud Macy mad record of 2:27I when
BOUGHT her. She was the first horse to
trot in 2:l7 on the exercising track on my
farm She has since trotued in 2:l6$I.
''Mane.Ja, when bought her, had trotted
in >: AZ for Mr.. Alexander, OF Kentucky.
John Murphy afterwards drove her in
2:164 on my track.
aLucy Cuyler had trotted for Colonel
West, of Kentucky, in 2:29 when bought
Ssr, Subsequently she was timed in 2:i5}3
Ton my track, and trotted publicly on the
2 Fleetwood track half mile TO top wagon
in :05, the fastest time ever made in that
way Of going.
al could give many Instances Of horses
training on while IL my possession, but
viii content myself with one more. In
1860 I bought from Mr.. Johnston, the Baltl-
more ban ker. the vel known mare Peerless.
At that time she trotted a trial in = Is to a
wagon, and was being trained by thatg great
driver, Hiram Woodruff. | took her home
and drove her on the road for about two
years, when | sent her back to Mr.. Wood
ruff to train. One day he told we'll
known Wall street broker, Mr.. William
Parks and myself, that he could drive her
TO beat the best time that had ever been
made by any horse to wagon. He named
the following Saturday. On that day Mr..
4 Parks and two other gentlemen went into
the judzes' stand and timed her to wagon
in 2:23H, which, by the way, is the fastest
mile Hiram Woodruff was ever timed IN
his life. either publicly or privately, behind
Z trotting horse.
II hope l have now satisfied the editor
of the California Breeder and Sportsman that
own and have owned few horses that
have trained on
(Signed) ROBERT BONNER"