New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-22
CAN sUNOL LOWER HER RECoRDP
HORsEMEy THINK so, AND Mr. BONNER WILL
GIVE HER EVERY OPPORTUNITY

HoRsEMEy THINK so, AND Mr.. BONNER WILL
GIVE HER EVERY OPPORTUNITY.
Robert Bonner the owner Of Sunol yesterday re-
ceved the following telegram from Leland stanford
sun9I trotted today in , :os 4 f., 1t wa 50 IN,
favorable day that Marvin teIegrphed me Al oc2c
trial on better day, when shall confidently expect
everything being favorable that she will trot IN :O6
I desire TO congratulate you on owning the TWO best
TOtters in the world.
The following was Mr. Bonner's answer
congratulate you most heartily on having obtained
the record for the fastest yearng the fastest tw0year
old the fastest threy earod the fastest yearod
the fastest hve-yearod, and the fastest record ever
made by a horse Of any age. II is really wonderful
that one should have accomplished so much in
breeding and developing the horse which all love.
10ur success in this Line Is great thing TOR can an
Of many millions for the higher purpose Of endowtnG
university for training ard educating poor young men
always give you warm place in their affections.
SUnors wonderful performance Of trottng full mile
in :O5 Ia, beating the peerless Maud ;. Onehalf sec
ond, which almost two full lengths, fulfilled
Mr. BOnner's prediction, made when he purchased
Dexter. that the day would come when the trotter
would beat . 10 Robert Bonner has done for the
trotting turf what the late August Belmont did for the
runners. Mr.. Belmont had beaten path to follow
where Mr. Bonner had TO feel his way step by step.
When he purchased the famous POcahOntas. fol-
lowed By the purchase of Dexter he began to study the
science OF shoeing and almost every horse that he
tried his method on improved In both speed ana gait
Rarus, Of the fastest horses Of the and the
champion Of mis- time had such bad feet that Mr. Bon
purchased him to try his theory and succeeded IN
putting him in such condition that he trotted mile
over the private track at Tarrytown in IL Ia two
seconds faster than his record.
suno Is bred in the purple. Her sire, Electoneer,
a concentration of trottng breeding, and IL was
natural that he should transmit the trotting instinct
70 his get II is useless 10 into the details Of breed
ing the sires side, his get was sure TO trot no
matter what the mare might be. But 10 secure the
blood to get speed and stamina Senator stanford
went 10 the thOroughbrds for the matons to breed TO-
ElectOneer and SunOl the results
Suno made her record under unfavorable conditions
which make her performance all the greater. That she
perfectly balanced is shown by the evenness OF her
gait Every quarter trotted MS nearly alike as
human skill could drive her. 1t is all the greater
triumph to her breeder to show that disposition can
be bred well aS speed.
Mr. Bonner tehgraphed yesterday that Marvin could
have the great mare month longer 10 give every
opportunity to lower still further her record on both
the regulation and Kite shaped tracks With the con-
ditiOns in her favor every unpreludced hOrseman
thinks she can do it, and O6 either kind u a
track will not be a great surprise 70 many leading
hOrsenen.