Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-09-30
THE SEASON OF 1892.
From Mirror and Farmer.I

IRON MlrrOr ana FARMER.
In knocking three seconds off the
worlds trotting record so far this season,
Nancy Hanks has equaled the reduction
in the champion mark made by all other
trotters in thirteen years. When Nancy
Hanks trotted in 2:05i at Independence
she lowered the record two seconds, a
feat not accomplished since st. Julien
trotted in 2:114 in 1879, his time being
two seconds better than Rarus, 2:13t,
made the year previous. Since St. Jul
lens 2 :ll4 the record has been cut down
by q fraction of a second. Maud S.
trotted in 2:lO3 in 1880 and in 210i in
1881. Jay-Eye-See held the champion
ship for twenty-four hours in 1884 by
trotting in 2:1O, Maud S. lowering the
record to 2 :09a the next day, and later in
the season cutting it down to 2:09i. In
1885 Maud s. trotted in 2:0Sa and stood
as the best on record until last October,
when Sunol trotted on the Stockton
(Cal.) kite shaped track in 20S4. Nancy
Hanks came within one-fourth of a
second of Maud s. best record at Rich
mond, Ind, on Sept. 30, 1891, when she
trotted a regulation track, pulling the
same style sulky used by Maud S., in
2 :09. Had the two been in race to-
gether the finish would have been so
close that it would have looked like
dead heat.
This year Nancy Hanks knocked one
second off Sunol's :0S4 over the Wash
ington Park, Chicago, circular track on
Aug. II, trotting a mile in 2074, and
over the Independence, Ia, kite-shaped
track, Aug. 81, just two weeks later, she
clipped off two more seconds with mile
in 2:05t. The pneumatic-tired sulky,
which has sprung into popularity this
season, has undoubtedly helped Nancy
Hanks some, and with perfect day and
track she may still further reduce the
record this season.
Martha Wilkes, aided by the bicycle
wheels and kite track, has succeeded in
beating all trotting records made pre-
vious to this year. and now stands next
to Nancy Hanks, she having made
record of 2:0S at Independence, Sept.
l, while the week previous, Aug. %, she
created new trottng race record with
a mile in 1904, betting ALVIN, Vic H.
and Charleston in 2:l2, 2:l0, 2 094, the
fastest three consecutive heats ever put
together in a trotting race.
The PAGERS, also aided by the new BIZ
cycle-wheeled rig, have been going even
faster, taken as whole, than the trot-
tiers. Hal Pointer, with mile in 2 054
at Chicago on Aug. IS, made record
equal to Nancy Hanks trotting mark
oyer kite track. Jay-Eye-See, now
fourteen years old, who in 1884 trotted in
2:l0, was set to pacing this year and at
Independence on Aug. PC he took a
record of 2 :064, only one second behind
Hal Pointers champion mark. Flying
Jib, last season owned and driven on the
road by a California sea captain, now
has pacing record of 2 :07, made at In
dependence last Wednesday, and Mascot
has race record over the same track of
! :004 for half mile and 2 0S for a mile.
Guy, by Shiloh, Robert j. and Grants
Abdallah have made pacing records of
2 90, 2:093 and 2:l04 respectively, this
year, making eleven PAGERS which have
beaten 2:l1, against an equal number of
trotters. The twenty-fcur fastest trot-
tiers and PAGERS are inclnded in the fol-
lowing list: