Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-11-05

and ON the 18th, a week
at Kalamazoo, Mich, for the
first time in the worlds history,
was a mark in the teens made;
2:19 3-4 was her limit, which was
then believed by most of horse men
to be the full measure of the trot-
ting horse. Dexter, driven by Bud
Doble at Riverside Park, Boston,
Mass, July 80, 1867, dethroned the
great queen, after a successful rule
of 10 years, 10 months and twenty
eight days, by setting the worlds
record at 2:19, and at Buffalo,
N. Y, on August IA, of the same
year, added new and brighter lau-
rels to his crown by the wonderful
performance of trotting a mile in
2:17 IA, which was the direct cause
of at least 10000 plug horses be-
ing christened Dexter. In 4 years
and % days from the time that
Dexter made his great performance
Bud Doble, with his plant touch,
drove that wonderful wonder, Gold
smith Maid, in 2:17 at Milwaukee,
Wis. On the 9th of the following
June he clipped off another quar-
ter of a second, which was equaled
by Occident at Sacramento, CAL,
on September II. 1888, but a sue
cession of victories at Saginaw, Buff
falo, Rochester and Mystic Park,
placed Goldsmith Maids record at
2:14. Next came Rarus, encourag-
ed by John splan, and obtained the
worlds record by trotting a mile in
2:13 IA at Buffalo, N. Y, August
3, 1878. The brilliant career of
Rarus lasted but a little over a
year, when the noted son of Volun-
teer, St. Julian, in the hands of
Grin Hickok at Oakland, Cal, Oct.
25, 1879, measured a mile in PIP
3.4. The queen of queens, that
daughter of Harold and Miss Rus
sell, Maud s., was the next to ap-
pear as a record breaker, driven by
W. W. Rair at Rochester, N. Y,
August IL, 1880, and left the envia-
BILE mark at 2:11 3-4. st. Julian,
on the same day and place, scored
an equal record to his credit, and
at Hartford, Con-, Is days later,
reduced it one-half of a second,
The queen of queens on the 18th
of September, the same year, al
Chicago, ILL.,, settled the question
by trotting a mile in 2:1O "a, ;and
from Pittsburg, Penn, to Roches'
ter, N. Y, continued to cut down
the record until 1t reached 2:1O IA
The little son of Dictator, Jay Eye
See, then popped up his head a
Providence, r. l., August l., 1884
and cut off the fraction of e second
scoring the mile in 2:1O, which last
ed but a day, for as Cleveland
Ohio, Maud S., on the next day
regained her lost honors by doinl
the mile IA of a second better. ant
at Lexington, KY, On Noveinbe,
IL, of the same year, reduced he
record to 200 IA, and the mex
year at Cleveland, Ohio, on the
3Oth of July, put on the cap shea
by trotting the fastest mile OF he,
life, making it in 2.o8 ga. This re
NAMED good until October 20, thu
present year. sunol then put asid'
all competition and declared he
right to the throne by trotting
mile at Oakland, CAL, in 2:o8 IA
The respective ages of each of thu
champion trotters of the world a
the time their best records wer,
made, are as follows Lady Sui
folk -; Pelham u; Highlan,
Maid 6; Flora Temple IA; Dexte
9; Goldsmith Maid II; Rarus II
st. Julian IL; Maud S. II; ia,
Eye See ; Sunol 5. 1t is a mat
ter of history that a stallion hai
never yet been able to secure thu
worlds record, but it is the opin
ion of some that if we ever have
two minute trotter it will be a stil
lion, for they have more strength
and endurance than mares or geld
ings. I will also attach a history
Of the champion stations as thej
appeared and their performances
| Ethan Allen was the first stallion
to trot q mile better than 2:30
He trotted q mile Oct. Is, 1858, q
Union Course, N. Y, in 2:2S
July z, the next year, Geo. M
Patehen made his appearance a
the same place and trotted a mill
in 2:26 Ia. and the next year b,
succeeded in reducing his record
times at the same track until it wa
placed at 2:23 IL, which stood goo.
/ for s years. Fearaught was tn
next to claim the honors b,
trotting . mile in 2:23 Ia at Buf