Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-29
Turn RECORDS BRoKEN.
Tho Season of 1891 Has Witnessed More
Record Smashing Than Any Other Year

The Season of 1891 Has witnessed More
Record Smashing Than Any Other Year
--some of the Notable Horses.
The Philadelphia Record of the oath
instant, says: More harness records
have been beaten this season than in
any other year in the history of the turf,
and the past week has been one Of the
most sensational of this eventful season.
Maud SIS record of 2.0S4, which has
stood since 1885, was beaten half
second by Sunol over the Stockton (Cal.)
kite track last Tuesday, and the great
daughter OF Electioneer and Waxana
now holds the worlds record at the trot-
ting gait. Her 2.0St over kite track,
however, hardly eclipses in point of
merit Maud SIS 2.0S4, over regulation
track. But Sunol is only years old,
which makes her performance the more
remarkable. she holds the 8 and A.
year-old records, having trotted mile
In 2.l0f in 1889, and repeated the per-
formance in 1890. She did hold the q
year-old record of ais, until Arion,
son of her sire, wiped it out with mile
in 2.15s, which he has since reduced to
2.145.
The day after Sunol trotted in 2.0S4,
Bell Bird, over the same track, lowered
the worlds yearling trotting record to
2.269, beating her own record (the pre-
yious best) made last week, by II
seconds. Arion 2-year-old son of Elec-
tioneer, on the same day placed 2.144
opposite his Name, making worlds
record which is not likely to soon be
| beaten.
The gray colt Rollo, by Jerome Eddy,
clipped three-quarters of second off
Pinewood's yearling pacing record over
the Independence Qa.) kite.shaped track
last Tuesday, and on Wednesday at
Nashville, Tenn, the black pacing stall
| lion Direct put together the three fastest
consecutive heats in harness by beating
Hal Pointer in 210, 209+, 2.11. The
time OF tho second heat (2.094) is the
fastest ever made in race in harness,
beating Hal Pointers 2.094, made at
Terre Haute last October, by half
second.
Six worlds harness records are not
likely ever again to be beaten in one
week.
During the year, in addition to the
above worlds record the trotting stallion
record has been reduced to 2.094 by
Allerton, and the pacing stallion record
to 2.06 by Direct, while Belle Hamlin,
Globe and Justina made n record of 2. IA,
hooked three together. Sixteen trotters
have entered the 2.15 list, while 1U2
trotters and 81 PAGERS have entered the
220 list. Nearly 1900 trotters and
PAGERS have entered the $50 list.
There are now four trotters and four
PAGERS that have beaten 2.10. The horses
that have gone as fast as 2.10 are as fol-
, n,a,l. 1 .nei ayes Wnen RECORDS were
~ ta ha5t aescsllp.lon, sire record and year
y oess performance peihg also given;
N.u. n.... rEorrEns.
sunoI AZ e ~ v ela ana sire RECORD, Year
Maud ), (@, CHI m, by Harold. ......sSSS ISL
Nancy Hanks ~, m, by Happy
Aileroa tS K Il, ~ NJ. so9 1Ssi
Nelson (sj, =, by Young Rolie......sios ISL ISL
Jay-Eye-see ~, blk e, by Dictator. .ai0 1884
PAGERS
pireet Ss,' b 8 by Director. 200 1891
Roy Wilkes n bsby Adrian 9sa isa
HI Pointer (6,, b 6, by Tom Hui. !. sisS 1850
orlcket %, ? M BY steinwas........s.lo 1890
u has been a remarkable year for colt
trotters, as the following will show:
fearling-Bell Bird, 2.264, by Elec-
tioneer, 2.20 trotter, dam Beautiful
Bells, 2.29i, by The Moor, 2.37.
Two-year-olds-Arion, 2.14a, by Flee
tioneer, dam sister to Woodruff, 2.18S, |
and Manon, 2.21, by Nutwood, 2.184;
Monbars, 2.1S, by Eagle Bird, 2.21, son |
Of Jay Bird, 2.311, heby George Wilkes,
2.22, dam Lady Maud, 2.1sf, by General |
Knox, 2.314.
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