Milford chronicle., 1893-07-07
New Records Made.

ne great klAC-S sud pEd AAoNN " LII
Valley TrotIiug Association at Kirkwood on
the Fourth gained new fame, two new
worlds records being established. Saladln
beat Mascot, the champion PAGER OF the
world, by more than five lengths, the time
being 2-osI making a new worlds record
for stations, made in a race The other
new record marked up was that OF John
Hamliu's team of bays, AYres ?. and his
running mate, Telephone. He drove the
two horses to a pole in o3H breaking the
former record OF o6. held by Whinship,
The race took place in the presence of fully
10 600 people, such a crowd never being
seen at any race before in this state, The
programme started at / IS O'Clock, when It
was announced that Miss Lulu Bates would
make a balloon ascension and drop 5000
feet through the air by means Of parachute.
The balloon was inflated properly, but be
fore Miss Bates could get in the basket It
broke away from the dozen or more men
holding it and went up in the air. It landed
nearly three Ipies away,
The Breining twins, Frank and Willie,
gave an exhibition of boxing and club
swinging on a small platform erected IN the
field surrounded by the track. ID. Scott
Ouinton, who is "a years OF age gave an eX-
hibition Of his great saddle horse, Sweet
heart. Without a doubt this horse is the
greatest saddle horse in the world, showing
ten or twelve different gaits and also dancing
a lie when the band played Yankee DoO-
die"
The first race OIL the programme was the
.37 trottiug class which was won by Bellinl,
He finished fourth in the first heat, but took
the next three heats straight. Agate Well
iuglon won the first heat, got second place
in the next two and in the last heat finished
third Her time for the first heat was 2. %
aud Bellini's time for the other three heats
was 90 ? 26A ard 2,26A May Bell finished
lust in time to save her driver from being
distauced in all the heats.
It took four heats to decide the 2 II trot-
ting class, it being finally captured by Sadie
NJ She finished nrst in all the beats but
the second, when she secured second place,
Conway getting first The race was very
exciting and at all the finishes Sadie n,
Conway and Gypsy Girl could nearly be
covered with a blanket. The time Of the
race was z2oH, q GSN 2.I6Z and IN
The next event on the card was Mr..
Hamliu and his great tTotteT, AYTes p, and
his running mate, Telephone, driven to the
pole The horse made new world record,
breaking that held by Winship, zoo. If
AvTes r. had had a faster running mate
Tuesday he would have gone the mile in two
minutes OF less, as he kept dragging the
runner, who was being whipped by Mr..
Hanlin. Ayres P made the quarters as fol
lows: First quarter, 3I1s secondsi half-mile,
I.o2; three-quarters, I.32H mile, 2o3H.
When the figures weut out the crowd went
wild aud cheered to the echo.
Ayres P aud bis mate arrived at the track
on Saturday night. Monday morning Mr.
Hamlin hitched them to an old race wagon
aud drove them around the course in o5A !,
also breaking the record. Before yesterday
most of the fast miles made by trotters with
a running mate to the pole was held by
Ethan Allen his sons and grandsons.
Ayres P. is by Prosper Maurice, son Of
Harold. His dam was by Rustic, son OF
Thoroughbred Lexington. Before Monday
Ayres P's mark was 2. -, which he made by
himself
THE TWO RECORDS BROKEN.
The most interest of course was centered
on the great race between Mascot, 2.o4,
owned by w P. Taylor of Buffalo aud driven
by W. J. Andrews, and Ssladiu, 2o9N
owned aud driven by Jamea B. Green OF
Wilmington. Some time before the race
saladin came on the track for a warming up
mile AS he passed the grand stand he was
cheered loudly He started past the judges
stand at a rattling clip, but he looked as if
he was not going as fast as he could. The
first time he lowered his previous record by
more than two secouds going the mile in
2.o7 He made the first quarter in 3OK the
half mile in I,o3N three quarters in I.36A
aud the mile in a.o7.
Mascot also worked out a mile before the
race in o8R. He went the FIRST quarter in
331z the half in o6JS three quarters, SO;
aud the mile in 2oSH The last half was
made in oa and the last quarter in 29K
seconds.
When Saiadin finished his first mile a
large horseshoe Of roses was put around his
neck. The crowd rushed on the track and
lifted Green from the sulky.
Saladin wore a set Of harness weighing six
pounds and his shoes altogether weighed ten
aud one-half ounces. The sulky weighed
forty-two pounds and Green weighed thir
teen pounds over weight. Just before the
great race started a very strong breeze
sprang up and blew almost a gale from the
quarter post. The horses had to go against
this wind for over one-third Of the mile and
on the turn Of the track it was cuppy. Il is
thought that Saladin could have gone much
faster had the wind not been so strong
w. J. Andrews, the driver Of Mascot, said
after the race that Mr.. Green had the fastest
horse in the world w p Taylor, the own
er of Mascot, said Ssladin Ra8 most won
deTful horse and he was SURPRISED at the
time he made