Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-12-02
THE FIGHT FOR STALLION
HONORS,

The most interesting happening in the
horse world since the Ehret sale of
thOroughbreds is the determined fight
for the proud title of king of trotting
stations which is being carried on be-
tween the great twelve-year-old horse
Stamboul and the great fve-year-old
horse Kremln, first one and then the
other reducing the record until it now
stands at 2074 with STEAMBOAT occupy
ing the throne.
At the close of last season Senator
Leland Stanford's Pale. Alto, by Election
eer, out of the thoroughbred mare Dame
Winnie, bv Planet, was king with a
record of 2:0Sa, and many excellent
authorities were quoted as saying the
mark would not he surpassed in 1892,
except by the gamest race horses of the
ElectiOneer tribe himself. Death carried
the monarch away, however, and in his
place came his California rival, STEAMBOAT.
by Sultan. out of Fleetwng, by Rysdyk's
Hambletonan. This horse was trOt-
ter when colt, and he steadily improved
until he surpassed all records made by
an entire horse, and when his fame was
at It's height his owner, Mr.. Walter
Hobart, died and the announcement was
made that STEAMBOAT and all the great
mares that had been secured to mate with
him would be disposed of by auction in
Npw Norl, f,ity on nan . nh lVhilo
the turf world marvelled at StambOul's
steady Improvement and ultimate
accession to the championship, a new
star appeared in the five-year-old horse
kremlin, owned by William Russell
Allen of st. Louis. Kremlin was trot-
ter by Inheritance, as his sire was Lord
Russell, a full brother to the illustrious
Maud S., while his dam was Eyentide,
the dam of Evermond, 2:24i, by Wood
ford Mambrino, himself trotter and
sire of trOtters. kremlin was one of the
greatest race horse three-year-olds out in
1890, and took a record in 2:22i at
Chicago on Aug. % of that year. Last
year he was not campalgned, but last
summer, after season in the stud, Ed.
Bither, who piloted Jay-Eye See, Phallas,
and other great performers to their
"recOrds," came out with the bay horse
in New England and won a glorious
victory. From that time forward
Kremln's march was one of almost con-
tinued triumph, and in the South his
speed seemed to be greater than ever,
and folks began to talk of his beating the
stallion record. This he subsequently,
did by trotting in 2 :0Si, reducing STAN
boul's record, and for short time his
name was at the top of the column.
Stamboul in his faraway Western home,
was brought out again and responded
with a mile in 2:0S. Kremlin had an
other favorable day at Nashville, and
turned the course in 2:07a, and the
followers of the stout young race horse
said defantly: "Carry that news to
Stamboul made a couple of fruitless
attempts to regain his lost crown, and
the whole country had settled down and
Kremlin as the champion, |
when the wires flashed the intelligence
that Stamboul had trotted mile in :O78 |
over the kte-shaped track at Stockton. |
That was a week ago, and so far there
mas been no response from Kremlin in |
he South, but the admirers of the
nephew of Maud 5. say that if the
weather remains favorable 1t is only a
question of few days until Kremlin
urpasses all his former efforts. But
nobody can escape the conviction that
'tamboul Is almost certain to retain his
lonors through the winter at least, as