Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-18
MAUD S. is DETHRONED.
BOnner's Mare No More the
Queen Of the Turf.
Laurels Wrested from Her by
Nancy Hanks.
The Mile Trotting Record Reduced
to 2:07M.
Budd Doble Says She Will iDo Better
Than This Before the Snow Files.
Other Interesting Turf
Occurrences.
Br tha Associated PRESS

lOuS6I QuS6u VI Cu0 tIObbiuB tuIis Lie
proud position which she held 30 long
has been wrested from her, and Nancy
Hanks reigns supreme. This afternoon
at Washington park, in the presence OF
10000 spectators, Budd Doble drove the
beautiful mare to beat her 'ecord of
200. She not only beat her own record,
but lowered the worlds trotting record
from 1881, Maud SIS time, to 2:O74.
The day was ideal for trotting, the
tract was trifie dusty, but as fast as it
we'll could be. The mare was in excel
lent condition. and before she made the
trial, the general opinion was, that if
Nancy Hanks was ever to lower her
record of 2:0e, this was the occasion.
DoBLE WAKES ENTHUSIASTIC.
After the excitement subsidized, Doble
waxed enthusiastic in speaking of the
mare, and said: SIN my opinion, she
is withoat peer on the trotting turf.
She was not distressed in the slightest
degree at the end of the mile, and fin
ished fresh and strong. Within twenty
minutes after trotting q mile in 2:0714,
she could have gone out and trotted
very close to it. She trotted true, from
wire to wire, never lost her head, and
did not show the slightest indication to
leave her feet. Tdid not touch her once
with the whip, and only swished it
through the aix, and spoke quietly to
her as she entered the home stretch.
will not start her here again, but have
every reason to believe she will make
her present record a back number by
the time the snow flies. She did the
trick so comfortably today, / am sore
she can beat it in the future"
NANCY COMES ON THE TRACK.
About 3o'clock Nancy Hanks first
came upon the track. She passed the
grand stand while the other horses were
scoring, and received but little recogni-
ton. An hour later she went over a
portion of the track at a 2:20 clip. She
was warmly greeted, and, after jogging
q mile, went to the stable and was
rubbed down preparatory to the trial
heat, which was scheduled for O'clock.
READY FOR THE RACE.
Punctually to the minute the gate at
the east end of the track was opened,
and Dobles drove her out. She was
without boots or trappings of any sort,
and hitched to one of the new sulkieH
with ball bearings and pneumatic tires.
Doble walked her slowly to the head of
the lower turn, and then came back to
the wire at gentle pace. After waiting
till the drag left the track, Doble drove
back to the sixth pole, and then came
down at a smashing gait. Frank Starr.
behind the pace-maker, Abe Lincoln, was
waiting for him. Starter Walker watched
noh1n7o fon int IN ~ h q xuo inf or
the word. AS the mare passed beneath
the wire, Doble shook his head, and Abe
pulled up to await the second trial.
THE MARE GETS OFF.
Deble took her back to the distance
fag,this time, and started with gentle
tret, increasing as she approached the
wire. A nod from Doble, and "Go p'
flashed from Walkers lips as fhe mare
shot like an arrow toward the turn. For
the first sixteenth of a mile Abe lost
ground steadily. Then Starr sarged him
on, and at the quarter he was on Nan.
cy's wheel. There was not q sound in
the.densely packed grand stand as the
mare; few past the quarter pole'in 81 11s
a2:s96 gait.
TRoTTING TRUE AS A DIE.
AS Nancy started along the back
stretch, trotting as true ss die. with
head well up, and feet striking the
ground with the regularity of pendu
hum, the crowd began to murmur
"She'll never do it in the world" but
the old-timers outlined Doble2e gray
jacket against the picket fence beyond
him, and as he passed so rapidly that
the pickets seemed to be going back.
a AI.nx >p1
As the mare, still keeping up heI
beautiful gait, went by the haif-mile in
1.03sa,, man in the grand stand called
out: Zone four, at the halfl''
A mighty yell went up from the
crowd.
gBREATHLEss- SPECTATORS.
"Keep quiet as she finishes" shouted
Starter Walker, but the warning was
not needed, as the crowd subsided Of
its own accord. Its own breathless in
terest in the event kept it quiet.
Not seund was heard as the mare
passed the three-quarter pole and
turned into the homestretch. Abe Lin
coin, under whip, moved up to Nancy's
throatlatch. Doble spoke gently to her.
and her feet flew faster than the eye
could distinguish them.
ssShe'll do it,! she'll do it, by -!''
yelled an irrepressible spectator, and
there was faint yell as the fastest
quartette OF gathering hoofs ever heard
on the trotting track swept under the
wire.
CHEERS FOR MARE AND MAN.
A moments paase, hasty consulting
of watches, and then an umbrella went
sailing into the air, accompanied by a
loud-lunged howl, and then bedlam
broke loose. Hats, canes and coats were
tossed wildly into the air. Men slapped
each other on the back, while others
shook hands in sheer delight. Incl
dentally they kept on yelling.
The loud cheers which went up told
Dobie, even before he slowed up, that
the record was brokcu. Az he returned
to the judges' stand, his face was
wreathed in smiles. AS he dismounted
he was surrounded by men who wrung
his hand. When he had chance, be
lifted his cap in Acknowledgement of the
cheers. There were loud cries of .sDo-
BILE Doblef' and the veteran reinsman,
climbing into the grand stand. again re-
moved his cap in Acknowledgement of
the wild applause that greeted him.
"Threes cheers for Nancy Hanks. %
shouted Starter Walker. and they came
from ten thousand throats with unre-
strained enthusiasm.
ssNow, three cheers for the man who