St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-22
AMONG The HORSES.
A Professional Horseman in
an Analytic Mood on the
Limit Of Speed.
Two Minutes for a Mile Is Not
a Very Early Proba-
bility.
Forbes New Breeding Estab-
IiShment and His Novel
Ideas.
The Swimming Treatment in
Relation to Gait--Gen-
ePal Pick-UpS.

The turf critics who proclaimed so fire.
Quently last year that mile in two
minutes will be encompassed by the
trOtter within the next few years seem
TO forget that we have been getting
nearer to limit all these years and that
the same memorable fact-that it is the
pace that kills-will confront the breed
ers of the next half century, as it has
those of the past. and unless they are
able to overthrow all turf precedents
and all the laws of limitation and math-
ematicS the two minute trOtter will be
just as far away from the next genera
ton of breeders as those of the present
time
In 1888 a scientific savant, Prof. Pick
ering by name, undertook to show by
graphical methods that the trotter
would yet cover 4 mile in % seconds,
and later undertook to prove by mathe
MATES that he was just seconds aStray,
and the time was exactly 81 seconds.
The professor says "tbat the speed of
the trotting horse is increasing at a
nearly uniform rate of 4175 seconds per
mile in ten years, and that at this rate
in the year 1907 a horse will trot mile
in 2 minutes, and in 2045 in one min
Ute"
Nearly twenty-five years ago Dexter
could trot a quarter in 81 seconds, while
his record was 2:1714, showing that the
rate of increased speed is much greater
IN mile than III quarter, and while
we have gained seconds upon DeXter's
record, we have not gained one second
upon the quarter mile speed, while it
will always be as true in the future as
in the past, that no horse will ever trot
his second quarter of a mile as fast as
his first; always provided his first quar-
ter represents his extreme flight of
speed.
No frst-class' horse ever yet trotted an
exceptionally fast quarter. either in a
trial or in race, but that that he trotted
it at the sacrifice of some slow quarter
in that same mile, and had to trot some
other quarter as penalty: and the Oil
adage ora slow quarter for fast mile"
will always remain truism as the years
20 by. Take the case of SunOl, and it
will only show that young mare, bred
upon the same lines that produced Maud
5. with a two-year-old record of 2:1S,
and three and four-year-old record of
2:101I, "booted, bitted and doomed" from
tuc hluuSI SuIlSll w tile kll6 DIS Ouo
never had been before, with a
master hand to guide her. pulling a
sulky weighing but thirty-sIx pounds,
and wearing harness weighing but
six, with shoulder straps, knee and arm
boots. cannon and quarter boots for
ward, and hook, shin and speedy cut
boots behind, and over a veritable Ito
boggan slide'' of track has reduced
the record of Maud S just one-half of a
second.
Up to the present time no trotter ever
yet took the word: and trotted any quar-
ter of his mile in thirty seconds first,
second, third or fourth); no trotter ever
yet took the word and trotted to the
half-mile pole better than 1:0319. and no
trOtter ever yet went three-quarterS of
the way at the rate of 2:07. What say
the records? Starting with the record
of Sunol as the best to date, find