Telegram-herald., 1889-04-19

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record az different lt-..aes si4ce $50 may x
found Interesting
From 100 O. 1910 the oDiy marx better
4 than minutes wss held b Yank1s and was
made al Harlem. June Is Iso6 Wallace
c.ziuis tAat tlis marx vas made ou "a sAorl
track. Prom $50 10 lS-o two hor~s got
marks Is good ; minutes. oiie II thcss
was Boston Blue. who. Al Jamaica \ Y la
ISIS, troiJsl IA 3 minutes nat Eight years
f prior 10 that Boston Horse went a nile Ia
4 2srS
Ia The next decade only long distance re-
ords wer0 The order but Ia TIE following ter
years Edwin Forrest tlotted In 2.3lL. uhlle
sally Miller completed "a mile "a PSI. Onsi0a
+ Chief paced a mile in 2.3l aLd in ls5g DroYe4
got under the wire la 2zS The year l>is
SAW Lady Suffolk tIot in 2.2Gis and Moscow
ia 1915, got beat IA 25o The following
three years produced no good record while
in 1919 Lady, Sutton trotted ia . 80 aud JAMES
L Polk pacel ia % In the same year as
Lady Suroik made Der record the chestnut
gelding Unknown paced a mile in 2.23
Between the years ls59-O0 Flora Temple
fourishcd as the greatest living tr0tter. In
laj9 she made her great -:leel record. which
stood al 1851 when Dexter cut il down by
two and a half seconds Ia IS52 the roam
gelding Pet paced mile IN 2ISi<. aud "a
year after Dexter made his record Billy
Boyce paced in 2.l44 St Julien made the
mile in 2:l2s@ which supplanteI Dexter. and
the present ten years Is shown in the above
table. In ST. Jullens time Sleepy Tom, 2:l2L
and Rowdy Boy, 2.lSs+, wero the great
pacers Thus gradually succeeding years
have witnessed the growth Of the American
trotter from the time when three minutes
was the greatest speed attained
The fastest stations by records tha. have
ever lived are Make Cobb, Phallas. Patron
ard Brown Hal the pacerl. Mares are Maud
s.. Belle Hamlin, Goldsmith Maid and Trink-
et; geldings, JayEye-See, ST. Julien, Rarus
aud Harry Wilkes.
OF the horses above mentioned. some enioy
some special distinction. Maud s not only
has the fastest mile on record, but has the
best marx in a race, 2:l3iS. and with Aldino
has the record ldouble) against time, 2I5is.
The record ldoubleD in a race is held BIZ Arab
aud Conde, 2;lse. Johnston is the fastest
PAGER against time and in a race TO wagon.
Westmont, 2:l35. has mark Of 2:0l3. with
running mate against time.
1t Is interesting 10 note that since 1880 the
slle WhcoltlS nave AWAY s lei the van They
have had the best Of the gait from first to
last. Ouesda Chief beat Edwin Forrest time
The gelding Unknown beat Lady Suffolk.
record. Pet and Pocahontas were faster than
Flora Temple. Billy Boyce and Yankee sam
we're faster than Dexter. Sleepy Tom paced
a mile at quicker gait than ST Julien could
trot il, and now Johnston has two seconds and
half the better Of Maud S
The yearling class has three prominent rep
resentativeS The first and greatest is Nor
lame, by Norval, from Elaine She trottec
fun mile in 1SS7 in 2.3lt4 Sudie d. Tn,
daughter of Fanny Clay 10y Sherman Ham
LletOnian, has shown 4 mile in 2:3j9,, whils
Kinda Rose by Elcctloneer, dam Beautifu
Bells, by the Moor, has 2:361S 70 her credit 8
this age. Sm~' is tho most wonderful 2
year-old the world has ever seen. and her 2:l'
isby far the greatest performance Of las
season. Sable Wilkes has 2:ls as a Swear
old, and there are others IN the 2AO list Tn,
4-vear-olds are a large body. and as 5-year
old performers Jay-Eye-See, 2l0, and Ia
tron, 2:l4Is take the lead.