The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-12-18

nent performances of the year. SuDoI
2:O1, the queen of the trotting turf
made her record atSStockton. He
best record over regulation track 4
z:1O15, but ia fairness, it must be said
1t was made when she was q three.
, year-old, and repeated again when
she was four years old. It is also fail
to assume that she would trot faster
as five-year- old, and that she has
notye reached her speed limit. These
reasons will not operate in Palo Altos
case, whose record over the Stockton
kite is 2:0834, his best record over a
regulation track being 2:I2L. PaIo
Altos complaining leg will always
make him al uncertain quantity, and
he was doubtless at his best when he
made his 2:0854, but it is extremely
| doubtful whether he could have ac-
complished the feat on a regulation
track, no matter how springy the
track might be. Nancy Hanks, the
famous five-year-old daughter of
Happy Medium, made her record of
2:O9 over regulation track, and her
race record of 2:12 over the kite
shaped track at Independence.
Nancy appears to be like Nelson, able
to trot on regulation track as fast as
| a kite. Nelson trotted the Indepen-
dence track in 2:l0 in a practice mile,
and at Grand Rapids he trotted to q
record of the same time over a regu-
latiOn track. Allerton made his
record of 2:094 over kite, and has
shown nothing near this flight of
speed on regulation track. His best
performance over a regulation track
is 2:l3Is, in the first heat of his race
with Delmarch. If it is conceded
that in a flight against time at Lex
iugton, Allerton could have trotted
in 2:l0I, we get some idea of the diff
ference of the two tracks, so far as he
is concerned. The bay stallion Del
march, by Mambrino, made two re-
markable records, both on regulation
tracks. He made record of 2:I2 in
the third heat of race, thus bracket
ing himself with Nancy Hanks for
the trotting race record, and a week
later he trotted against time in 2:II16. |
AS Nancy Hanks defeated AlIerton in |
IN 2:l2, it looked on paper as if Del |
march should have beaten the five |
year-old champion in the great Lex
ington match, but instead he was |
easily defeated. The time indicates
that Delmarch was not in good form.
The Nancy Hanks race SHOWS that
over the kite it takes q faster horse
than Allerton to beat him. The mare
is three-quarter seconds behind the
time record, but the clever way ia
which she defeated Allerton proves
her to be the campaigning queen of
the year. That the four year-old
Mckinney, by Alcyone, likes the new
style track is proved by the fact that
he trotted recently at Stockton IL
2:121a, reducing his regulation track
record of 2:17 by AZ seconds. The
most remarkable of all the fast kite
performers is the incompatible two
year-old Arion, 2:10M. AS all his
performances have been on this track
no comparison can be made. A very
performer indeed ia the bay
stallion Pat Downing, 2:13%, who in
one season has come straight from
the ranks, of the rank outsiders to his
present record. He is a graduate
with honors from Independence, Ia
Another fast performer in the Spring
was Mary Marshall, who attached
2:1234 to her name at Independence,
reducing a previous kite record of
2:17. EgthOrne is a very fast stallion
and he made his 2:12% on the new
style track, as also did Robert
in 2:13L; Balkin, 2:l5, and
other fast ones. All these records
are against time. The question may
we'll be asked, is not this advance all
along the line more imaginary than
real? Have we in one season added
10 much genuine speed. The yearling
'ecord of 1926, the two-year-o1d record
If 2:104, the four-year-Old stallion
'ecord of 2:12%, the five-year-old
stallion record of 2:094, the stallion
'ecord 2:0824, the worlds trotting
'ecord of 2:0S4 and the worlds pacing
'ecOrd of 2:06 have all been male !
against time and on kite tracks. We !
hink the inference is ohvious-that
t is not a question of soil, but ques
ion Of shape, and that the kite track
deserves its full share of the honors.