The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-21
TRoTTlNe HORSES.
The Growth and Development
of This Animal.

ana Sunol with her 2:0SA over kite
shaped track, and Maud S. 2:0SA over a
regulation track, both take back scat,
while Miss Nancy has 2:O74 pinned on
her bonnet, and we think it is cracker
jack for Miss Sunol, or any other horse,
mare, or gelding, to surpass. AS we have
predicted from time to time, Nancy
Hanks has surpassed all other trotters
and placed on the black board q record
which 1t will be very hard for any other
horse to rub out or equal. Poor old
Father Time. The horses keep clip
ping the silvery locks from his classic
brow, until it certainly looks as though
his entire scalp was in danger.
Maud Sis no longer queen of the tros-
ting turf. The proud position which
the daughter of Harald has held since
1885 has been wrested from hor. and
even her stable companion Sunol,
whose record Of 2:0S Il over a kite shaped
track is now second, and her time sur
passed over q regulation track Thurs
day, 18th at Washington Park, Chicago,
in the presence Of $4,000 people. Budd
Doblo drove his favorite mare to beat
her own record of 200, (which she made
at Grand Rapids, Mich. about two weeks
ago" She not only beat her own record
but lowered the worlds trotting record
ono full sec md (2:074).
have every reason to believe that
she will make her present record back
number by the time snow flies She did
| the trick SO com fortablY that am sure
she can beat it in tho future. When
| Nancy trotted the heat she weighed
| $40 pounds, Doble weighed $50 pounds
and tho sulky ~ pounds. A few weeks
ago l gave short history OF Nancy
Hanks in one of the articles in THE
TIMES. I will recapitulate for tho in
| formation of those who did not peruse
the article.
Nancy Hanks, the new queen of the
| trotting turf, is a brown mare foaled in
| 1886 She was born in the purple and
| her blood is of tho purest and most val
ued. Her sire, Happy Medium, was by
Rysdyk's Hambletonian; second dam by
tho Wilcox mare, by Burdick's Engi-
| gineer; and he was n son OF Engineer,
and he by imported Messenger. Happy
Medium was bred by r. +. Galloway,
| Suifern's, N. Y, and his dam Princess,
| spoken of in one Of my articles some
weeks ago, trotted in tho race with
| Flora Temple, when Flora made her
great record of 2.10M at Kalamazoo,
MICH, IN 1909,
AS six-year. old in 1860 Happy Med
ium obtained his best record (2:321<) in
a race at Patterson, N. j., and in 1871
was purchased by Mr.. Robert Steel, OF
Philadelphia, who kept him in the stud
until 1879 when he became the property
| OF Gen. w. ID. Withers and went to the
| famous Falrlawn Stock Farm, Lex ing.
ton, KY, where &c d led full Of years and
honored in 1888. He was a small horse,
beautifully formed, and as a sire ranks
third OF his get in the 2:3O list, Election
Ger and George Wilkes only exceeding
him.
The dam of Nancy Hanks is Nancy
Leo by Dictator; her dam Sophie by Ed
win Forrest. Dictator was full brother
to Dexter, 2:174, in his day the great
est Of trotters. Dictator was by Rysdyk's
Ham bletonian, dam Clara by Seely's
American Star, a com bination of blood
that has produced a large number OF tho
best trotters. He was the sire OF Jay
Eye See, 2:10, and of Director, 2:lT, who
in turn got Direct, 2:06, pacing; Mar
| garet 5, 2:l24, and many other great
| horses.
Nancy Hanks was bred by Mr.. II.
Boswell on farm near Lexington, Ky.
lie had vol bred trottlng mare and in
1886 she produced the bay filly now
famous as Nancy Hanks. She was
named in honor Of Abraham Lincoln's
mother whose maiden name was Nancy
| Hanks. The embryo queen of the turf
was not given the early training that
she would have had in u grsat tro .tiLg
establishment. Her first education was
at the hands of an inexperienced young
man (Entrich), at that time entirely I'M
known as trainer. Nancy made her
debut at Harrodsburg, Ky, July 81.
1889, when she heat good field of
throe-year- olds in 2:274, 2:254, 2:25X,
losing the first heat to Bonnie Wilmore
in 2:2SM. week later at Danvil "a,
Ky. She beat Bonnie Wilmore and Allie
V. in straight heats, 2:26I, 2:241,
2:26A. In September she won = race at
Eminence, Ky, in slow time. AT Licking
ton, Ky, she easily defeated good
party, best time 2:264
| In October she won the three year old
stake at the Kentucky breeders meet
ing, beating bonnie Wllmore and others
in 2:264. 2:25sz, 2:26L. At Sharpsburg,
| Ky, she scored another victory, closing
the season without defeat and with
the loss OF but one heat, which was the
first in her maiden race
| In her four-year old form she was very
successful and last year she was only
unsuccessful in attempts to boat time.
She boat Margaret S. at Chicago in
straight heats. tho last one in 2:l24.
and at Independence, Iowa, she beat the
stallion Allerton, and Margaret S. in
2:l2, 2:l2M, 2:12; and at Buffalo, n. V,
she beat Belle Hamlin in mile dash in
2I6H. AT Richmond, Ind, Septem Der
30, over regulation track, she gained
record OF 900 against time. This year
she has made several unsuccessful at
tempts to lower her record, and last
week at Grand Rapids, Mich, with the
advantage OF pneumatic sulky. she
| rooted in 200. the track hainp q trifn