St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-18

ner leeC new raster tnan the eye cOui0
distinguish them She'll do it, she'll
do it, by God!' yelled an irrepressible.
and there was faint yell as the fastest
Quartetette of patterlng hOOfS ever
heard on trotting track swept ulfder
the wire. There was moments pause,
hasty consulting OF watches, and then
an umbrella went sailing into the air
from near the grand stand. Hats,
canes and coats were tossed wildly into
the air. Men slapped each other on the
back and shook hands with each other
in sheer delight. incidentally they kept
on yelling. The loud cheers which
went up told Doble, even before he had
slowed I'D, that
The Record Was Broken,
and as he came back to the judges
stand his face was covered with smile
as wide as the visor of his cap. He had
said that Nancy Hanks would beat the
record, and she had done it. As he dis
mounted from his Sulky he was sur
rounded by men who wrung bls hand
again and again. When he had a chance
to use hand he lifted his cap in ac-
acknowledgement of the cheers of the
crowd. Loud calls for "Doble, Doble."
went up. and the veteran reinsuan,
climbing into the grand stand. again
holds SO much knowledge concerning
trotters, and bowed repeatedly to the
wild applause that greeted him.
"Three cheers for Nancy Hanks"
shouted Starter Walker. and they came
from 10000 thrOats. with wild enthu-
siasm.
Now, three cheers for the man who
drove her." and again the air was siiiy-
cred, and hats, coats, handkerchiefS,
and everything else that could be
thrown upward, were sent in that di-
rectiOn. 1t was fully ten minutes before
the tumult subsidized.
A Wonderful Mile.
The official time for the mile, which
was As honest mile as was ever trotted,
is :31115, l:03s4, 1863, 2:U714. The last
quarter was trotted in 3Osl seconds.
The exhibition was given for a certain
sum to be paid by the Northwestern
Breeders association. under whose di-
rection the trotting meeting is being
held. All additional sum was to be paid
if the record was beaten, but Doble de-
clined to say. what it was. He waxed
enthusiastic in speaking of his mare
after the heat was over.
"She is, In my opinlon," he said,
without peer OH the trotting turf.
She was not distressed in the slightest
degreee at the end of the mile. and
finished fresh and strong. Within
twenty minutes after trOtting that mile
in 2:0714 she could have gone out and
trotted very close to it. / don't say that
she could have equaled it, but she
could have put in a very fast mile with
out much trouble. She trotted true
from the wire to the wire, never lost
her head and did not show the slightest
inclination to loose her feet. l did not
touch her once with the whip, and
only swished it through the
air little, and spoke to her
quietly as she entered the home
stretch. l will not start her again, but
have every reason to believe that she
will make her record back number
by the time the snow flies. She did the
trick SO comfortably today that am
sure she can beat it i'll the future"
Knew 1t Was Smashed.
"Dld you have any idea that you were
breaking the recOrd?"
II knew at the half" said DobIe with
a quiet smile, THAT Nancy was going to
come very close to it. anyhow. looked
at my watch and saw she had done it in
:O4 by my watch, ana | knew She
could at least keep up the gait at which
she was going. Then when heard 'em
yell as / finished, knew it was DONE"
In trotting the heat the mare, who
weighed today $40 pounds, pulled Doble.
who weighed $50 pounds, and a Sulky of
62A pounds weight.
Nancy Hanks, the queen of the trot-
ting turf, is bay mare. six years old,
fifteen and three-quarters hands high.
She was sired by Happy Medium, out of
a Dictator mare.
Abe Lincoln, the running horse who
helped Nancy along to glory, is bay
horse with something of history. He
was formerly the property of Adam
Forepaugh Jr., who used him for many
years about the circus. his good points
being his perfectgentlenes and fond
ness for the society of elephants, of
which horses III general stand in mortal
terror. Because of his level head,
obedience and thorough reliability, he
was taken by Doble as pacemaker for
Nancy Hanks in her trials against time.
The officials at Washington Park
claim that the time of 2:0S$4, made by
Maud S at Cleveland III 1885, is second
to that OF Nancy Hanks record of today.
SunOl. now owned by Robert Bonner,
of New York. trOtted in 2:084 on a
kite-shaped track at Stockton, Cal, in
1891. This performance they declared
to be inferior to that of Maud S ON the
regulation track, which they say is con-
ceded to be from one to three seconds
slower than the kite-shaped track.
Nancy Hanks is owned by j. Malcolm
Forbes, of Boston, Mass, who pur-
chased her last year for $4,000.