The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-02-10
THE ARRIVAL OF SUN0L,
New York City Crowded to See the
Great Queen Of the
TURF
Sarah Bernhardt and CarMencita
Were Thrown Completely
Into tho Shade.
Col hi A. Coekerill Wants to Know
whether She II Really as Good
as Maud :.

The arrival of Sunol in New York has
been an Important event in this commun-
ity, writes Col. John A.. Cockerill to the
Buffalo Express. For several days the feet
mare held a reception in Mr.. Bonner's sta
Bile in West Fifty-dfth street, which
amounted to an equine %soiree; and it will
not do for any man who wishes to hold MP
his head in horse orioles to confess that ho
did not attend it. The Four Hundred of
horse s1ciety were there, which means that
the representatives Of the mule society were
rigidly excluded. Persons were admitted
to tho great horse rresencs by card only,
and only the very exclusives who ''trot in
that class could get sight off Sunol paste.
boards There has not been, | think, the
same wild desire to sec a visitor since the
late Dom Pedro was here. We certainly
have no other attraction in town to equal
it, even in Il small degree. Sarah Bern
hardt could not have held her audience.
I, even in tho snake scene, had Sunols stull
been OPEN to them. Az for Carmsncitn.
had she been here she might have careened
and contorted till the cows came home. but
she could not have drawn like the little
scrawny mare that trotted a mile in 2:084
on a kitc-shaped track.
Az for Sunol herself. it may DO said that
it is deucsd lucky for her that she has =
record. She would never impress the be-
holder 40 being the fastest trotter in the
world. In one corns of her stable was her
Saratoga Misunderstanding goodness only
knows what-and on the end of it were
painted the figures to show that she had
trotted Mt two years old in 2:18; at three
years old in 2:1O1@s; at five years old 2:0S4.
Looking at the little bay mare before mo,
with her apparently heavy head and her
stomach tucked up like a Qreyhound's, !
could almost havs persuaded myself that
she had levanted with another'ss baggage,
and was travelling under falss prstenses. A
curious thing noted about Sunol is the gen
oral conformation of her body with that of
a greyhound. She has the same deep
chest. while, like the greyhound, her stoml-
ach is drawn up at the loins as if by a
puckering string. At least a portion of her
head. and particularly her ears, suggest the
greyhound. while the sloping hips and
slender, steel-like legs add to the vividness
of tho suggestion. And yet, with all this
resemblance to another animal, Sunol Is q
''singed cat
Can this mare with her kite-shaped rec
ord Of 2:O84, really equal Maud SIS time
2:O8A-on an ellipticnl track? The general
opinion Of horsemen is That she cannot DO
it insher hve-year-old form. ] have heard
mated at as much as two seconds. This
means a great deal. II y horse is trotting
at tho rate Of 2:08 he will cover
eighty-two feet and six inches in
the brief period of W %seconis; or, if y
Kite shaped mile isf'8211ss short, il 10 feared
%Ln% Gr-o1 ~il1 Ia rr.nt1 " CIrrrricaT nrT
PANIED ut the length of an elliptical, or
Maud s., mile, so to call it.
There are some horseman Of good judg-
ment and fair prophecy who are peerine
into the not very distant future to SEQ the
terrible swing of the two-minute t,otter.
this horse, and he is not looking among the
sea horses for him either. Let US observe
what the trotter has been doing to warrant
this expectation. 1t il more than thirty
years ago that Flora Temple achieved her
record of 2:19s4. Since that time seven
record breakers. 1t was III 1867 that tbs
white-stockinged Dexter sent q thrill
around the globe by trotting in 2:1714. and
for four years he held the crown Ut
challenged. Then Goldsmith Maid moved
up to the first place in 2:17 and three years
later lowered her W record to 2:14. Rarus
appeared on the horse horizon in 1878 and
trotted 2:13114l. and was followed the next
year by St. Julien in 2:12&a4, these figures
being reduced the next season by the same
horse to o:114. Then Captain George
Stone came upon the scene with the hand
some Maud s., and in the same season,
1880, she trottod in 2.l0A. -Four years
later Jay-Eye-See reigned but one day.
for, as if to rebuke his presumption, the
very next day Maud s. trotted IN honest
mile in 2:099sl. Twice after this the chest
nut mare lowered her own record, the first
time to 2:004, and in July, 1885. at Cleve-
land, she made her famous burst of 2'0SA.
This was unappronched and apparently un-
approechable until. after six years. Sunol
comes along with her wonderful speed and
thrusts her mpzzle under the wire in 2:0S4.
In the meantime Nancy Hanks, Nelson
and Allerton are each trotting down near
the record and there is no telling what may
happen. The glorious climate OF California
seems to have an amazing effsct in devel-
oping speedy %ttottcrs, and We may have
surprising news from Stockton any day.
Mr.. Stanford says it is a part of his theory
to not press a horse to the point of endur-
ance, but some of his recent records, from
his yearlings up, would suggest that he
must be %crowding his flyers very close to
the limit. Mr.. Stanford said recently that
there are Is, 600, 600 horses in the United
States, and if by breeding wa can raise their
value 500 per horse. We have paid off the
national debit
t. lo.u at a, a. ,,o - no ~ Ill re-,