The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-30
Of @PEcuLIAn|TIEs.
Always Takes 4 Horse Of Marked
Individuality to Break
= Record.
ne Facts About Maud g.. sunol
and the Great Nancy
Hanks.

Present Queen Of the Trottins Turf
u Next - h Smallest OF
ths Cracks.
very horse that has had the speed and
good luck TO be : rsoord-breakss has
. horse Of opinions. says the San
noisco Examinsr. TO ths men who
p In the straw with them. sat with them
j. their baby days 10 The hosf Of their
htsst victory. there 10 just % much indi-
aality to . great trottsr ~ there 10 to a
II man. II takes . horse Of individual
TO break . record, just the same 40 men
b have character to climb out Of the
hmonplaoe.
[srs oms this mare Nancy Hanks and
pcks ont Sunol. Maud 3. and Ill the
Or cracks BY trotting . mile over an old
. track In two minutes and ssvsn n
,uartsr seconds. That il n second
ter than sunol trottsd last year On the
ckton kite. and . second and . half
Tor than Maud 8. trottsd on tbs old
Ok ~ Cleveland. II il in order now for
ciQarmakers to tack another name to
ir brands and the country livery stables
paint another sign.
1aud s. had her peculiAritlss. Eunol 10 Z
y Of mind and manners. and Nancy
nks has an intellect sufficiently above
! brute TO reason herself into likes and
likes. Sunol has = decided aversion to
irwin, the man who drove her, and =
bat fondneds for Dan. her attendant.
ncy never did like Dobls, the man who
behind her yesterday, but she took =
ing to his brother Frank. and he always
pvs her in her slow work. While she has
Iood temper, Nancy has hor share OF dog
: il jogging. Dobls tried to get her out
that when she came into his hands. but
soon found that she would not stand .
ht and he lot her have her own way about
When she comes out in the mornings to
} she strikes q pace. amblss along for
half or q mile. and then swinse of into .
bt. But she doesn't trot until II suits her.
kncy never had : trainer yet who fought
! more than nos. She likes to DO rea-
bed With. Doble won her by kind
b, not with the whip. She 10 q quiet,
by-going, wsll-mannered mare so&long ~
> 10 treated kindly, but she rssents an IN
hdly word or blow. and few have been
ven her. There are some horses that you
b badger about q you wish and still got
Fvios ont Of them, but Nancy 10 not one
that kind.
Horsemen. who are the nrmsst believers
the laws Of hsrsdity. see . significance
this mares personal likes and dislikss,
Il grandmother was the famous old trot-
hr rnavn DvsnnAon ~hn naAA n HMM
ono about the country with Flora Tenn
8. Az n time Princess lived in Chi
|Ro, not far from whore her granddaughter
(oke the record. Her driver Al that time
Do Aleok Fish. George Donaldson VAS
II rubber. Fish never dared TO 60 into
kinosss' stall. Donaldson would bring
b out and hiteh her 10 tbs sulky and Fish
build climb in, Once he had the lines
EeI her he oeeysd hin R'1 T;:s .a b.:
b ooms within kicking distance. Donald-
- could sleep beside her and she wal
The new queen Of the trotting turf i
hd queen" are not I Al. II belonged
hoe. though, to & great family. Nancy.
10 mare, was bred BY Hart Boswell at Lex
laton, Ky. In the troublesome timss Of
% war Boswell val = great admirsr Of
braham Lincoln. The admiration dates
lok 10 Linooln's first campaign. At that
me Cassius II. Clay was running his ia
lous abolition papar at Lexington. Ono
y the people told him to cease publishing
IL radical articles. Next day abolition"
, big black letters appeared across the
tie Of tho journal. A mob attacked the
mos, knives and bullets brought blood on
9th sides. Boswell was one Of the SIX
'sn who defended Clay against the hun
reds. When the flly began 10 show that
- l: d d.1 s on' 70 H. w si:ss "wh "'i knows 1V: but
nat I may DO perpstuating. the name Of :
reat and noble woman" And he called
10 flly Nancy Hanks. The original OF
lat was Linooln's mother. 1t 10 homely.
ut IL belongs to . queen.
Next to Goldsmith Maid, Nancy 10 The
animal that eysr stood a the top.
he il just short Of fifteen hands and two
,ches, and whom In training weighs but $50
Goldsmith Maid, the smallest Of
e ssr if si.s w:: b 5s:: :n': md x:ias: d Il ,nG in
scing form bat $50 pounds. Hunol. being
I the Qaunt O. dieI, does mot wsiRh much
but she 10 an mob or two taller and
ms more to legs. Sunol 10 OF the grey
ound type. Nancy has = tendency in that
bat has not the great height over
ne hips that marks Bunol. Both marss
re remarkable t0r th0lr nervous Of0AniZA-
.ons. Supol does net like company
n the track. while Nancy wants II 10 20 Il
or best clip. Last year whom she trolted
2:O9A at Cambridge CITY. Ind, Dobls u.
ected TO drive her IN 2:o7k.. Father John,
he runner. gallopsd alongside to encourage
or. she trotted to the half mile pole in
:O4. Dobls bracsd himself for Z broken
scord. just then Father John staggered.
through the rail and fell dead.
tarr. the driver. few through The air and
the ground ahead. For N instant
'oble frightened on che mare. Starr Wal
ill whore he fell. The record was within
be mares reach. Stop for his dead friend
r go onp The thought and The pull on the
rare were matters OF 4 moment. Starr
as still and he went on. The mile Vas in
:09l+.s The accident At the half had lost
Starr was only stunned. He drove an
runner beside her Wednesday.
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