Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-18

rested alone with ner ana DoDle now lar tn 9
record was to be lowered.
Nancy Appears on the Track.
1t was about 8 o'clock when Nancy first
came up on the track. She passed the
grand stand, while the other horses
were scoring, and received but little recog-
milton. An hour later she was out and went
portions of the track at 2:20 clip. She was
warmly greeted this time, and after jogging
a mile went to the stable and was rubbed
down, preparatory to her trial heat, which
was scheduled for o'clock.
Punctually to the minute the gate at the
east end of the track was opened and Doble
drove her out. She was without boots OF
trappings of any sort, aud was hitched to
one of the new sulkies 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 few moments until a drag
which had gone around the track close to
the pole had left the track, Doble drove her
back to the sixteenth pole and then came
down at o smashing gait
Started on Her Fleet Mission.
Frank Starr, behind the pacemaker Abe
Lincoln, was waiting for him. Starter
Walker leaned far over the railing
of the Judges stand, his eyes on
Doble's face, watching to see if he wanted
the word. just as the mare shot beneath
the wire Doble shook his head. Mr..
Walker drew back and Abe Lincoln pulled
up to await second trial Back to the
distance flag this time, and at gentle trot,
which increased rapidly as she drew near
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flashed from Walkers lips as the mare shot
like an arrow toward the turn.
There was work for Abe Lincoln now,
and for the first sixteenth of mile he lost
ground steadily. Then Starr urged him on,
and he was on Nancy's wheel at the quar-
ter. There vas not a sound insthe densely
packed grand stand as the mare flew past
the quarter pole in :31X-a 2:06 gait. She
started along the back stretch, trotting as
true as die, head well up, and her feet
striking the ground with the regularity of a
pendulum. The crowd began to murmur,
She'll never do it; never in the world, 4"
but the old timers outlined Doble's gray
jacket against the picket fence beyond him,
and as she passed them so rapidly that they
seemed to be going backward they held
their breath and said nothing
A Swift Half Mile Cheered,
They knew that the record was going
AS the mare, still keeping up her beautiful
gait, went by the half-mile pole in 1:03A
q man in front of the grand stand called,
1:O4 at the half" mighty yell went up
from the crowd.
keep quiet as she finishes" shouted
Starter Walker, but his warning was not
needed. The crowd had subsidized of its
own accord. It's own breathless interest IN
the event kept it quiet. Not a sound was
heard as she moved past the three
quarter pole and turned into the home
stretch. Abe Lincoln under the whip
moved up to Nancy's throat latch. Doble
spoke gently to her and her feet flew faster
than the eye could distinguish them.
"She'll do it; she'll do 1t, by -p'
yelled an irrepressible, and there was q
faint yell as the fastest quartet of pattering
hoofs ever heard on q trotting track swept
under the wire. There was o moments
pause, hasty consulting of watches and
then an umbrella went sailing into the air
from near the grand stand. It was accom-
panied by loud-lunged howls, and then
bedlanl broke loose.
Everybody Wild With Excitement.
Hats, canes and coats were now 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 up that the record was broken,
and as he came back to the judges stand
his tace was covered with smile as wide as
the visor of his cap He had said that
Nancy Hanks would beatthe record, and
she had done it
As Doble dismounted from his sulky he
was surrounded by men, who wrung his
hand again and again. When he had
acknowledgment of the cheers of the crowd.
LIQUID calls for "Doble, Doble" went up,
and the veteran reinsman, climbing into the
grand stand, again removed his cap from
that head which holds so much knowledge
concerning trottera, and bowed repeatedly
to the wild applause that greeted him.
For the New Queen and Her Driver.
'Three cheers for Nancy Hanks"
shouted Starter Walker, and they came
from l0, 900 throats with wild enthusiasm.
"Now three cheers for the man who
drove her." and again the air was shivered
and hats, coats handkerchiets and about
everything else that could be thrown up
ward were sent in that direction. 1t was
fully ten minutes before the tumult sub
sided.
The official time for the mile, which was as
honest mile as was ever trotted Is 81 "a,
103s4, 1861, 2:07L The last quar-
ter was trotted in 30A seconds.
The exhibition was given tor
certain sum to be paid by the North
western Breeders Association, under whose
direction the trotting meeting is being held.
An additional sum was to be paid If the
record was beaten, but Doble declined to
say what it was. He waxed enthusiastic in
speaking of his mare after the heat was
over.
''She Is, in my opinion" he said, with
not distressed in the slightest degree at
the end of the mile and finished fresh and
strong. Within 20 minutes after trotting