The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-21
TRACY ON TROTTERS
Palo Altos Performance Does
Not Equal Maud IS.
THE TWO MINUTE TRoTTER
Arion May be That HOrse-The Secretary Does
Not Like the Thoroughbred Cross SO
Close as Stanford and Bonner.
Ispecial 10 NEE HERAID-Examlner Dlspatoh. ]

Especial TO THE HERALD-Exam1ner Dispatch
WAsnINGToN, Nov. 2O.-"It is absurd TO
claim that mile trotted over kite track
is equal to performance over the same
distance on an oval or regulation track,
when it is conceded that the former is
from one to two seconds faster" said Sec
rotary of the Navy b. f. Tracy this
evening, when
DISCUSSING PALO ALTOS REMARKABLE MILE
at Stockton on Tuesday last. You might
as well make a comparison he continued,
''as far as the full merits of the performers
are concerned, with a straightaway course
for mile. In saying this much, however,
l do not wish to be understood as assuming
that Senator Stanford's stallion did not
accomplish a great feat. 1t was, on the
other hand, a wonderful performance, espe-
ciauy when it is generally understood that
the horse has complaining leg, and has
had for some years past. His gameness
under the circumstances was quite as won
derful as his speed This was latter espe
Cially surprising to the trotting horse
world, inasmuch as it was not generally
believed until a few days since that Palo
Alto was equal to the task Of materially
lowering his record. Certainly no one east
Of the Rocky noun tains thought the stall
lion record won by Anerton few weeks
since was in any particular danger Never
theless l maintain that PalO Altos per
Torrance of 2:0S5I is
NOT AS GREAT AS THAT OF MAUD S.
made at Cleveland seven or eight years
ago.
az have been frequently asked of late if
! thought that the kite shaped track had
come TO stay. My reply is no, because
iwct n unYtTnit fha nnhliC without
whom racing cannot flourish, to see an eX-
citing finish in contests Of speed and can
never become as popular as the regulation
track, where the start and finish can be
equally witnessed. Second, unfavorable
comparisons will always be made between
records achieved on the kite and oval
tracks.
ITO digress. 1 wish TO say something
more about the two-minute trotter. l be-
lieve | was the first man to publicly pro
claim that q horse would appear that would
trot mile in two minutes. have been
quoted as limiting the period in which the
feat would be achieved to few years.
was miscoustrued. 1 named no time, but
did say that l thought it highly probable
that within five or ten years amlle
WOULD BE rRoTrED IN TWO MINUTES.
Why, just consider for a moment tha
quarters have been trotted in 2915 and 81
seconds. This being the case, all that re
mains is to speed full mile and the tricl
is accomplished, the two-minute troster viii
have arrived. When one contemplates tue
rapid advance made in breeding for higt
rate of speed and the power to sustain
within the past two years the idea of
two-minute trotter is not so utopian a:
some very intelligent breeders think it I
be. Whatever they think, l will stick I
nv text and leave time to determine tn
wisdom of my belief. AS for the two min
ute trotter, l should not be surpris ed
Senator Stanford's two-year-old
ARIoN WILL EVENTUALLY TRoT IN THAT TIME
# his recent wonderful performances hav
not injured him. Arion is the most re
rnarka5e horse of all time. The history c
horse breeding presents no parallel to hi
speed powers. Compared to his feat fey
days since at Stockton, when he trotted
mile N :10I, the performances Of all horse
of all ages and at all gaits sink into insig
nificance He stands without peer tn
greatest horse that ever stood on iron. HI
breeding confirms the theory that l hay
always advocated, viz: that
40 GET TRoTTERs YOU MUST BREED TO TRo-
TIERS
and that to attain the highest rate of spec
at the trotting gait you must continual
blend these strains that possess the great
est stamina snd nerve force with those thi
possess the highest form Of trottlng spec
/ SIN . believer in a thoroughbred found
ton il the trotter, nevertheless, provide
a comes from the best sources, l do no
however, like 1t as close up as do Senate
Stanford and Mr.. Robert Bonner. Ele
tioneer is with one or two exceptions pc
hGps the only stallion that has been able
throw very fast trotters from thorough
breds. It Is doubtful whether Electioue
would have proved as successful as he b.
fhrNTyripp rT1ffprs fr0un theron o h brad
half thoroughbred mares were it not Fl
the fact his dam was clay"
Nashville Races.