New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-18
THE MARES WONDERFUL WORK.

TR0TTIN0 FAST MILES WHEN she "A0 SAOn
HER RECENT PERFORMANCES.
Nancy Hanks Is now the queen OF the trotuns
turx having fairly wrestod tho crown from Maud s.
by trott.ng mile q regulation track IN q :o' ~
ana the regulation track record Of oe 34 made by
Maui s. in 1888 has been wiped ont. sunoPs Mte-
sonueh record OF 2 0e IA has also bcen obheraeeo
Av the now Queen. Nancy Han6 Is owned By J.
Malcolm Forbes Of Boston, and Is now ok years ode.
eAs WA dred by Happy Medium and her dam u
mare hU Dictator. Her career on the turf - 70
m.fkaAae ono and she fulfilled oil that was ssa@
aSout Aee BY her owner and BudA Dooio' n''
driver Her performances this year wore made undef
rreak dlfnouMes and some Of the newspaper cn''
csms werc 60 bitter that J. Malcolm Forces sene
letter 3aH woek to some Of the leading spor@ie
papers IN regard 10 tho marc and her driver b""0
Doks.
NANCY Hanks tretted q mile In 90 last fail ana
trotsed number Of heats at different places IN iass
tim. she had a severe cold which caused her 70
have q slight attack Of lung fever. Inc mares TO
markabe constitution. however. wdthsfood the at'so2
and she recovered from its effects so rapidly that sne
Was nut in training and was TO try to mako worio
record this year, u possible. Budd Dooie sao 70 INC
writer last winter: "n I can get Nancy HANKS IN
.hsps any time before S(tember viii hang up a
mark that It will take wears to excel She Us a eooo
feeder and stands a Journey by rail like Pullman
car porter but she got OF and was quite SICK oat s
rounding to- % that II you want to sec the queen VI
the trotters 80 and SOC Nancy Hanks
The marc began tho season OF 1892 at Seimono Esin
Philadelphia. Although she was not In shape ner
wonderful speed carried DobIe mile In 2:11 L. she
VIVA sent BY rail to Detroit and caught cold on tho
tourney She was ailing when she attempted to beat
her record OF 90 at Detroit. great torong was
present 10 see The daughter Of Happy Medium rc ana
rather than disappoint then the mare was hitched 70
4 bicycle suhy and pleased the attendance BY rotune
4 mile 10 2:1l "a. From Detroit she was sent 70
Cleveland and With regulation sulky. was unable %
10 better than :l3 over the track on which Maud g.
msAo her record. The track was as last as human
ra1ll could mako II, SO that trottng experts SHOOK
their heads ominOusly. From Cleveland the mare
iourneyed TO Grand Rapids, where shc cquhiieu "ci
record Of 1891 to the dismay OF her critics, ana Vin
GATED Mr. Forbes and Budd Doble whose hith was
not shaken In the mares ability 70 mako record that
would astound the trotting world. From Grand hApi0
she jsureyed Chicago, and yesterday at washihs
ton PARK over regulation mile track, which Is really
several feet mile, three feet from the poie she
trottod a mile In :O7 Ia beating the record made
by Maud S. q secoUd and . half. and sunops Kite
shaped track time one-half second.
The victory over time Will set the KENTUCKY
breeders wild with Joy the Californian champions
Ar. NOW in the rear Doble declares that he viii
rednce the record sun further before the snow
nies and he may try do 1t over kte-shaped track
10 Is to the difference between different tracks
Robert Bonner Is In Meadvie. Penn. where sunol
Is in active training. Mr. Bonner e1peoS "o"aeiiui
things Of her. that there Is little use In comparing
the records Of Nancy Hanks and sunoi as the a'.er
has every chance to show by her performances the
cpmparatjys merits Of TIE two mares. budd Dooie
who drove Nancy Hanks, has been before the puoho
A. driver Of famous trotting horses for thirty years
and was the driver who pioted Goldsmith Maid when
abe trotted in 2:I4 eighteen years ago. The once
famous Dexter driven by Dohle wheI ne
turf were driven victory by him He looks Eounsef
~snfv Years ago and hts career driver Is In Its
prime In his turf fe there never has been orsa i;h
ali tmrfmen from the humblest rubber TO the wealthy
owner,