Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-11-09
Increasing Speed Of Thoroughbred
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TIE old fight with tune on the ffouipe
,-sct !. a, iEpportSuta une 10 the comfors
.nd eonve, wee Of every American tha'
the los. Of n.ls = second On The record OF
Msui s in 20S 8 4 lie An evs mt shieh saf'
a far w,asr e 'iy % in;efssf than is oou nded
hy tie race track fh- ssiti mil male o'
Msud S al G!enville. OHIO, july 81, 1850.
hs. now stood IS . record for six ears sad
oyer--s longer period than any o,hef hxe
record has re msiued unchanged since $40
Us. made in 1874 snd was unchanged
until 1854 10 sixty years no other record
has gore NJ, hanged one half a' long. 90
steady are tbs changes by which mile 10
,h,ee mir u,ss has hem reduc d to Within
sl4a seconds of g co in the seventy.three
wears since lhousa .ds of dollars were BET
that no horse could trot in less tina"
,b.ee uinu;es Ii has taken two hucr
died yssrs Of breeding snd rsining
To bring the thoroughbred "a sseond'
short of 2 90. xud the mile in l.S5 msd
by Salvador at Noon luth PARK is as yet
only s year old Troniog is bounded oy
this century, and ninety years have seen an
advance which arousas specu'ahon As 20 the
possibility Of resching that distant gosi sno
fsr-ct bou If mile Ia tvs minutes
IL the records SO on dropping IS last Is
they have for for'y-eight years past, during
which twenty have been cut on 'hs slowly
diminishing record, this speed will be
reached ia about 1910 Ten years ago,
shsn three successive years had seen three
seconds disappear, the prediction was made
that ibis century would see this record
reached The loug delsy in breaking the
c,rd of Maud S mas bred les cocfi 'ert
temper Five years SGD. even. NJ. Ii. ID
Mckinney Of Wire Jnsi', a high sashorit!,
expressed the opinion il the Spirit OF the
Times thst the tSo-ninu'e trotter would
always remain beng OF fancy.
The fastest qlsrt,r by thorough
bred W.. then % seconds ard the fsst-
AZ mite, Ten Btoecks. l 80 Stree
the, h,'h have teen lowered. jim Miller
7, ducing the Q natter to 81 l-2, AMI Saliva
tor the mile to IS l2 1, is an interest
ing fssture of the chsngs that the fistest
mil , remsins the me 'est trlfs slower than
the fasfet q istter. If, nccorife 10 the
theory of most breeters, thoroughbred
bl ,od would, uotioe &C ion anil pa~sr be-
| irg retain ed, enable The uot'er 10 briug
mile snd qusrjer e io'ds together, We have
ALREADY Maud SIS half mile in OF and
| Sanol's last year in / OF l-2 to inficste
| 2 "a and O5 - the nas+ihie sYeet, /. no So
ter. Ms peif, cDu!4 be ct wl,h .he sta ing
power Of the thlroughJrct. s lmethiog
| liRe this yrccss is in prog-e for the trot-
| ter lie steadily Apr a hi = ,uc esr.y n>tu'-
ty Of the Il o onghpr i Sulofs yeAr-t Id
record ot 2 Is was summsrily hes'en
last week ty ite me- record of
I2l4 IL. uate b. Axiom, aid as
| III. lass q,qTt r wa4 made IN 80 Ia,
we have here hoIse with the last-quar.er
sts, irg pow ers Of the thoroughbred rs we'll
as his exriy cspsciiy for speed. Such 8
horse may we'll be expected next year to
best Sunoi's 2 10 l-2 at thre e years old, and
a year later tina like year old record made
b, the same mare. The prnspec c. is excel
! ,ut, in other words, thu. tn. couduy two
Or three years hence will have three horses
better than 2 10, an unexamplsd lumber,
| Fer six yesrs thfre has only been one. The
| increase in the number Of horses capable
OF making certain time is as remarkable as
the time tself. Ten years ago the number
of horses with q record of 2 40 or better
was I've thousand. 1t must today
be twice as large. Tne 2 80 class in
the decade frcm 1870 to 1880 grew at the
rate OF one hundrsd year. By the end OF
the last decade from five hundred to six
bu d ed horses were yearly added to this
list The growth in the cure t decade IL
.tiil larger. Where there were. in 1880
twelve Eundred AID ten such horses, a
present there must be over five tt ousand
There is an erorr Jus base from which tt
breed II is INSTANTLY deeir g the intitr.
ton Of wider and wider range Of thorough
bred bic od,-philsdelphii Press.