The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-09
Tho Comlnc of snnol.

The arrival of Sunol in New York
has been an important event in this
community. For several days the fleet
marc held a reception in Mr.. Bonner's
stable in West Fifty-fifth street, which
amounted to an equine soirce. and it
will not do for any man who wishes to
hold up his head in horse circles to CON
fcss that he did not attend it, The
-Four Hundred of horse society were all
there, which means that the repre-
sentatives of mule society were rigidly
excluded. Persons were admitted to
the great horse presence by card only,
and only the very exclusive who ''trod
in that class" could get sight of Sunol
pastcboardL There has not been, I
think, the same wild desire to sec a
visitor since the late Dom Pedro was
here. We certainly had no other at
traction in town to equal it, even in a
small degree. Sarah Bernhardt could
not have held her audience, even in
the snake scene, had Sunols stall been
open to them. AS for Carmencita, had
she been here she might have carecncd
md contorted till the cows came home,
but she could not have drawn like the
little scrawny mare that trottcd mile
in 2:0S4 on lsite-shapcd track. AS
for Sunol herself, il may bc said that it
is deuced lucky for her that she has
record. She would never impress the
bcholdcr as being the fastest trotter in
the world. In one corner of her stable
was her Saratoga trunll-containing
the Lord only knows what-and on the
end of it were painted the figures to
show thot che had f,.ot fn1 Mt
old in 2:1S; Mt s years old in 2:1OI<; at 5
years old in a:OsH. Looking at the
little bay mare before me. with her
apparently heavy head and her
stomach ''stuck up" like grcyhound's,
could have almost persuaded myself
that she had lcvantcd with anothcr's
bagga@" and was travelling under false
prctenscs. A curious thing noted about
Sunol is the general conformation of
her body with that Of greyhound. She
has the same deep chest, while, like
the greyhound, her stomach is drawn
up at the loins as if by n pickering
string. At least a portion of her head,
and particularly her cars, suggest the
greyhound, while the sloping hips and
slender, steel-lilsc legs add to the vivid
ness of the suggestion. And yet, with
all this striking resemblance to another
animal, Sunol is ''singcd cat"
Can this mare, with her kite shaped
record of 2:0Sl4, really equal Maud S. Z,
timc-2:0ssl-on all clliptical track?
The general opinion of horscmcn is that
she cannot do it in her 5-year-old form.
have heard the advantage of kite
shaped track estimated at as much rs
two seconds. This means great deal.
If horse is trotting at the rate of eos
he will cover cighty-two feet six inches
in the brief period Of two seconds; or,
if lsite-sliaped mile is eishty-two and
n half feet short, it is feared that Senol
will be greatly surprised and panied Mt
the length of an clliptical. or Maud S.
mile. SO to call it.
There are some horscmcn Of good
Judgment and fair prophecy who arc
pecring into the not very distant future
to see the terrible swing of the two.
minute trottcr. Secretary Tracy. of the
navy, expects to see this horse, and he
Is not looking among the sen horses for
him either Let us observe what the
trottcr has been doing to warrant this
expectation 1t is moro than thirty
years ago that Flora Temple achieved
her record of eio2i Since that time
seven horses, each in turn. have been
conspicuous record breakers II was IN
- ,has tiiS whitc-etockingcd Dexter
sent n thrill around The globe By trot-
La "a 1i;s. cal sor fear years lie held