The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-24
TRorrlMe HORSES.
The Growth and Development
of This Animal.
(Continued.)


ing queen of trotters. will continue to
give q few items connected with the
mare, thinking that anything connected
with her will be interesting to some of
our readers. And right here wish to
say that, perhaps, some of those who
have perused the articles on the trot-
ting horse may think that the history
is being written in rather promiscuous
or disjointrd manner, and that by lump.
ing over some of the prominent trotting
stars, las it WERE" and giving a history
of those that have lately come into
notice, that am getting tho cart be-
fore the horse. | will only say in ex-
PLANTATION that 1 am writing mostly
from memory. with but very few notes
or memoranda to help me, and there
fore cannot form perfect and straight
forward history. But before | wind up
/ will endeavor to make it interesting
if do have to back and pull to do it.
EQUINE APPEAL.
I'm poor gray horse whom somebody owns,
But that I'm sadly neglected YOU will see By my
bones.
wish some one would buy mc-I wish was
sold
To 4 mSn with heart, for am feeble and old.
Every fifth day of the week come to the mart.
Aud stand tcthercd and tied to my dirty old cart:
While my master, In case at the public house
table,
Denies me the shelter of public house stable.
I'm possessed of some virtues which in him
yon'll not fnd
I'm docic and patient, / IN gentle and kind;
NV acts instructive his the urOOf Of n N, ind.
But if I've no reason, he is mentally blind.
No matter the wind no matter tho weather,
You may Judge how L suffer, you may think of
For I'm cold soddcn, 1 am dripping with
rain
y friends OF humanity; o friends OF the brute;
Bcstow on me pity. Though by nature I'm mute
I'm a creature OF God-deny il who can
And have ft clings ms keen aud strong as n
man.
October 20, 1891, will long be remem-
bered by all lovers of the trotting horse,
for at Stockton, Cal, Sunol, daughter of
Electioneer and WaXana, proved her.
self queen of the turf, standing at last
in that brilliant court which numbers
among its stars, past and present, Maud
5, Jay. Eyo-See, St. Julien. Goldsmith
Maid and Rarus. California has done
velopment. This one thing remained
to be done to max her truly great. and
it has been done. The story of how the
great mare trotted a mile in 2:OSi4 is
plain tale when stripped Of the grandiore
description given it by anxious CORES
rondents. 1t was an honest effort
against the watch. which succeeded
without any flourish of trum pets or
grandstand display.
Sunol was one of the horses down on
the card to start against time. The
card was large one and thousands of
people from all over the State were pre-
sent to see the work. At noon a brisk
wind was blowing, just tho kind of a
breeze that would be likely to stop a
horse when facing it. In that wind
Chas. Marvin, Sunols driver, said that
he would not risk starting tho mare
He had too much at stake and he did
not care to place all at the mercy of q
capricious breeze.
Other horses started against the wind
and all of them done we'll. Marvin saw
the time that they were making and
was encouraged. He said that he would
wait until late in the afternoon, and
then If tho wind died away to an aopre.
Ciable extent he would start the mare
AT o'clock the wind had lost it's rec.
Marvia brought Sunol out and gave her
couple of warming-up miles.
He took her in and half an hour
later brought her out again and gave
her another mile. brushing her through
the last quarter He said she
was all right and that he would start
her if the wind would let him. AT S
o'clock the force OF tho breeze was gone
and tho attendants were ordered to hook
up the mare. AT 5 o'cl ok and ten min
utes she scored down for the word, and
before the quarter hour was reached
there was now turf queen. Marvin
brushed the mare up the back stretch
just once, and IS he approached the
judges stand nodded for the word.
Sunol is very quick to got going fast.
When the marc passed the stand ''go'
was shouted TO him and the effort was
begun. Every one who has seen her
trot knows with what burst of speed
she gcos away from the wire. She
is hard to control for tho first
quarter of the mile. Marvin then
TOOK her back out of the fast clip. She
was going as quickly as she could with
safety. lie wanted to rate her and got
the first quarter in 80 seconds, but the
marc carried him thero in 3lsl seconds
She was well settled down then and he
was able 10 take her back, and at the half
mile the watchers said i:04, which was
just tho clip Marvin wanted her. A
runner joined her there and was brought
up and Tapped on her wheel. The three
quarter post was passed in :37 and the
mare had not made 4 bobblo or skip. In
her trials before the last quarter has gen
orally found her wanting to a greater or
less extent. But in this one she had
plenty of speed left and sha never mad o so
resolute finish. When she was within
200 yards of the wiro Marvin was
playing his whip over her back in
gentle way, but he did not touch her