Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-20

been an important event IN this cOmmunl-
ty. For several days the feet mare held
reception IN Mr. BOnner's stable IN West
Eifty-ffth street, which amounted TO an
equine sOuee, and 1t Will not do for any
man who wishes to hold up his head IL
horse circles to confess that he did not at
tend II. The -Four Hundred OF horse So
ciety were all there, which means that the
representatives Of mule society were
rIgIdly excluded. Persons we're admitted
To the great horse presence by card only,
aud only the very exclusive who trot IN
that classn could get sight OF Sunol
pastoboard. There has not been,
think. the same wild desire to see
visitor since the late Dom
Pedro was here. We certainly had
no other attraction ii town TO equal
IL. even IN O small degree. Sarah Bern
| hardt could not have held her audience,
| even III the snake scene. had Sunops
| stall been open TO them. As for Carmen
cita, had she been here she might have ca
reened and cOntorted till the cows came
home, but she could not have drawn Ike
| the little scrawny mare that trotted
mile III 2:0S4 on a kite-shaped track. As
| for Sunol herself, IL may DO SAID that 1t IS
| deuced lucky for her that she has a record.
| She would never impress the b0holder as
! being the fastest trotter IN the world. In
| one corner of Aer stable was her Saratoga
| trunk containing the Lord only knows
what-and on tho end OF II were
painted the figures 20 show that she had
| trotted at two years old in 2:lS; at three
years cid in21011: at five years old iu2O54.
! Looking at the little bay mare before me,
| with her apparently heavy head aud her
stomach tucked up" like greyhound's,
| / could have almost persuaded myself that
! she had levanted with anOtheI's baggage
| and was travelling under false pretences.
| A curious thing noted about Sunol Is the
! general conformation of her body with
| that of d greyhound. She has the same
| deep chest, while. like the greyhound, her
| stomach Is drawn up at tho IONS ~ II by
| a puckering-string. At least, a portion of
| her head, aud particularly her ears, sug-
| gest the greyhound, while the sloping hips
| and slender, steei-llke legs add TO the
yiyidness OF the suggestion. And yet, with
all this striking resemblance TO another
animal, Sunol is slnged cat"
coSUSDRUM.
| Can this mare with her kite-shaped re-
cord of 2:OS4 really equal Maud 5. s time
| 2O55l--on an ellptical trackf The gene
! raj opinion of horsemen is that she cannot
| DO it in her fye-yeaT-old form. l have
| heard the advantage OF hte-shaped
| track estimated at as much as two seconds.
| This means great deal. II horse IS
| trottlng at the rate OF 2:O5 he will cover
/ eighty-two feet six inches in the brief pc
Rod of two seconds or, if kite-shaped
mileis eighty-two and halt feet short, it
| is feared that Sunol will be grealy sur
prised and PANIED at the length Of an ell
| iiptical. or Maud S. mile, so to call it.
| There are some borsemen of good judy
ment and fair prophecy who ara peering
into the not very distant future to see the
terrible swing of the two-minute trotter.
| Secretary Tracy. of the navy, expects to
see this horse. aud he is not looking among
| the sea~horses for him either. Let US Oh
! serve what the trotter has been doing to
warrant this expectation. 1t Is moro than
! thirty years ago that Flora Temple
achieved her record Of 2;1s5z. Since that
time seven horses, each IN turn. have