Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-22
THE TURF's NEW QUEEN.
Sunol Breaks the Worlds Trotting
Record.


Beats the Best Time OF Maud s. by a
Clean Half second--The Performance
OH n Kitc-shaped Track.
SrocKToN, CAL, Oct. 2l.-Dr. Marvin re.
deemed his promise to-day, and put .Sunol
over Kiteshaped track, beating the time OF
Maud s. by clean half second.
Heavy, dark clouds blew mp in the west
last evening. and for time it looked as u
the Judges Of the record meeting would
have to fly IA blue signal flag from their
stand to-day and declare the events OH,
The barometer, however, was found 10
be rising slowly, notwithstanding i'll omen
in the western sky, and this indication OF
fair weather allayed somewhat fears that
1t would rain. The morning opened bright
and sunny, with very little wind blowing:
At II o'clock temperature was 70o and
there was light breeze stirring. Marvin
left his hotel at $50 o'clock for the track.
He said he had made up his mind not to
speed Snnol unless all conditions were
favorable even if he got no show against
time this season. All through the after
noon II looked bad, but about b o. clock the
wind died down and only gentle breeze
was felt
The track was in fine condition. and
Marvin decided that conditions could
never be more favorable. He had the
mare rubbed down carefully, and when
usual.
None of the usual trials were needed.
for on the first attempt Marvin nodded
and was Off. The mare made great time,
going the first quarter in BIZ seconds. Moth
ing sould exceed the beauty of her pace.
She moved like machine and Marvin
sat like statue. The same even, beauti-
full pace was maintained to the half, which
all timers marked at l.0I fiat. When this
was announced ii looked bright for break
ing the record.
AT the half running mate was waiting
for Sunol, and his presence seemed to help
the mare. Marvin urged her, aud she
went over the third quarter in superb style,
making the three-quarters in l.3l.
As many in the crowd were timing her,
it got around that the mare would proha-
bly, beat the worlds record, and no race
track probably ever saw more exciting
crowd, even when hundreds of thousands
OF dollars were at stake.
All the prominent horsenen in the
state were present. and II was magniti-
cent sight as Sunol swept into the last
quarter and came down like the wind
The runner had to pull out to keep pace
withthe mares flying feet, and Sunol passed
under the wire in 2".!. There could be,
no question Of time, six expert time
keepers Tailed to a d E. and there was no
variation among many horsemen present,
who also kept time, To say that the crowd
was enthusiastic is to put it mildly.
They would have iakcn Marvin up
bodily and carried hi to stable, but he
kept his seat and merc 'knowledged his
exploit by bowling.
Horsemen here will probably want to
see Sunol speeded on an old fashioned
track to see what she can do, but this
record must stand if Allertons are allowed.
The Stockton track is actually two feet
longer than mile so there can be no claim
that Snnol didn't cover the distance.
Sunol is owned by Robert Bonner, the
New York horseman, also the owner of
Maud S. Mr.. Bonner purchased Sunol
from Senator Sanford about two years ago,
paying Sal 200 for her-or 81 900 more
than he spent to possess himself of Maud S.
The worlds record held BY Maud s. was
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