Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-10-17
THE STALLION RECORD.
The liorseman, Chicago.l

1t was in ISL that Long Island Black
Hawk made stallion record of , :3S to
wagon. and that record remained good
for six years. Andrew jackson. the
sire of Long Island Black Hawk, had,
away back in 1884, trotted in :42l, and
the following year went to saddle in
2:3S4. Until his son lowered it no en-
tire horse approached Andrew Jackson's
time. In 1888 Ethan Allen came out as
the champion four year-old of his day,
and lowered the mark to = :3G. This
was at the old Union course on Long
Island, and two years later he again cut
the mark down to 2:349. The most
beautiful of the Morgans kept on, and
in lS55 he trotted at Boston in 2:34I.
Two years later he made the record
2 1929, and in 1858 he entered the then
rare , 80 list with y mark of , rs. This
stood as stallion record for year, I'M
til George NJ. Patchen in 1859 cut it over
The Union course to 2.2Gi. Patchen
was by far the greatest entire horse of
his day. Like old Andrew jackson, he
lions, and he went on until in 1850 he
trotted in } :23!. That, remember. was
thirty years ago, and though the time
may seem slow to Us of to-day when we
consider that it has taken thirty years
to get from :234 to 2:llI we must NOT
be too boastful of our progress. The
stallion record stood at , :234 until 1865.
or for period of eight years. when the
eastern bred horse Fearnaught made a
reduction of quarter of second in it.
He had beaten the best horses of his
day, and in the race in which he made
the mark American Girl and George
Palmer were among those that failed.
Fearnaught was of the Morgan race, and
his greatness was loudly heralded in
New England. After him came George
Wilkes, 1.-THE noblest Roman of them
all. After much campaigning he met
and beat Rhode Island and Draco Prince
at Providence, October IL, lSGS, and
trotted the second heat in 2:22. This
stood good until 1872, when JAY Gould
essayed to set a stallion mark. or rather
to beat the record of Goldsmith Maid.
The task was too great. however. and
the best he did was to trot two heats in
2:204, :2l4, and as this was against
2:l4 the fastest heat the son of Lady
Sanford ever trotted did not constitute
a record. Then the mighty Smuggler
came upon the scene. He trotted first
in :203, and then Mambrino Gift made
the stallion mark 2:20. The scion of
the Mambrino Chief line accomplished
his feat at Rochester, August l3, 1874
Charles Marvin was then name less
known than now, but when. in the
great stallion race at Boston, September
u. 1874, he drove the queerly-bred trot-
ter the third heat in , 20, beating Phil
Sheridan, Mambrino Gift and others. the
genius of the best colt trainer of our day
was in degree recognized. Smuggler.
however, went on to greater things. \
year later he beat Judge Fullerton at
Philadelphia, trOtting in 2;l7, then next
year he went to Cleveland and humbed
the pride of Goldsmith Maid, the queen
of the turf. The 2:l5t of Smuggler
stood unbeaten from 1876 till 1881. a
period of eight years. Then the great
estof Dictator's entire sons, Phallas, was
out and sweeping all before him. He
beat Catchfly, Clemmie g.. and Fanny
Witherspoon at Chicago, trotting the
fourth heat in 2:l3f, which remained
the fastest heat ever trotted by stall
lion in a race until Palo Alto defeated
Jack at Washington Park this summer.
trotting the last heat in 2:l3. Phallas
remained king of stations" so far as
time was concerned, until 1881, when
MaXey Cobb trotted the good old track
at Narragansett Park, Providence, Il.
l., in 2:l34. From that day onward
many have been the attempts, and more
the designs, on the stallion record. 1t
remained, however, for three-year-old
colt, AXtell, and breeder and trainer.
Williams, who then had a name to make,
to break it. And AXtell did CALAMITY
break it in PIP. And now comes 1.-THE
Northern King the idol, of the Pine
Tree State, who trots the kite-shaped
track at Kankakee in 2:ll1, drawing
his unique breeder, owner, trainer and
driver at many pounds overweight.
In illustration Of the downward march