Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-08-25
LAST WEEKS RECORDS.
From the Horseman.

From the Horseman.
The racing of the week just passed
produ, ed some notable performances,
both by colts and mature horses. the
most remarkable, of course, being the
flight against time of Nelson, who start
ed to beat his record of ? 10 and finished
in 800, the fastest mile trotted by a
stallion this season, the only faster per-
formance at that gait being Huda's mile
in posi-, Nancy Hanks exhibition in
2:OSd ana Ayres P.'s "trip in , :O34 with
running mate. Nelson's performance
was especially credltable by reason of
being oyer track both new and slow.
ard his achievement shows that the
Maine horse is not to be overlooked
among the possibilities for the stallion
championship. The next most notable
mile was the exhibition by Nancy Hanks
referred to above. when she trotted
steady and true in :0S1 over the Mystic
Park course, showing that she possessed
the speed and observation-disclosures that made
her marvellous performances last year
| possible. These were the fastest miles
trotted, and the pacing performances of
the week are headed by The bay gelding
Major Wonder. by Major Edsall, Jr.
who cut quarter of second off his
last years record of 2:l0 in race at
Buffalo August 10, and Flying Jib's
heat in the same race in ? :094.
The two best yearling performances
of the season also occurred within re-
cent days, being the mile paced in 2.374
by Judge Hunt at Fort Wayne, August
II. and the trotting performance of
Eagle Flight in :3S4 at Versailles, Ky,
the following day. Judge Hunt is
bay colt by William NJ. Hill, "a, dam
by the Tennessee horse Octoroon, who
also sired the dams of Geneva S. 2:l94,
Matte II. 2:l14, Suzerain 2:l6t and
others. Eagle Flight is FLY by Jay
Bird, stamped with the roam color that
distinguish most of the sons and daugh-
tiers of this sire, and will no doubt en-
ter the , 80 list before the season is over.
Burlington, full brother to Chris Lang.
2:264, by Sable Wilkes, out of Annie
G., by lie Grand, trotted in 2:4l5 at
Grand Rapids, and again in , :404 on the
opening day at Fort Wayne, the latter
being the fastest of the age when made,
and still the best by trotting colt for
the year. Some good work has been
done by the twO-year-o.d division, and
two fillies have paced in 2:l74 each, one
being Belle Acton, the yearllng cham
pion of last season, who reduced her
last years mark of 2:20l to 2:l74 in
contest against time at Omaha, Neb.,
August Il, and the other Lena Hill, who
paced in the same time in race at Fort
now in progress there. Belle Acton is
daughter of Shadeland Onward, 2:lS5,
who has displayed decided tendency TO
transmit extreme speed at the pacing
gait, and out of the developed pacing
mare LOttie p, 2;l74. by Blue Bull, Jr.,
otherwise known as NeoshO, a son of
Wilson's Blue Bull, and Lena Hill is by
William NJ. Hill, sire of Judge Hunt,
and, like the latter, out of a mare by
Octoroon, her dam being Postum Pie,
who also produced George Campbell,
that made a twO-year-Old pacing record
last season of 20. No two-year-old
pacing colt has yet eclipsed the , :2l4 of
Victor Mazzone, and he still heads the
list, together with the fillies Belle Acton
and Lena Hill. Among the twO-year-
olds Directors Flower headed the list
with her record of 2:22, with Billy !
Parks, ,: 2Gi, the grey son of Dauntless,
the fastest among the colts, until the |
second day of the Terre Haute meeting, |
when the Axtell colt Axenite trotted |
in ? :2l, displacing both Billy Parks and |
Directors Flower. The same afternoon |
the latter, who is the subject of our
cover Illustration this week, cur her
mark to , ;2lf at Rochester, which places /
her close up with AXenite and leaves her
the distinction of being the fastest two
year-old trotting tilly of the year. AXente,
by AXtell, 2;I2, is out of Seldom dam
of Uncle Sam, ? 1884 at three years, by
Durango, 2:23a; next dam Shadeland
Gem, by Satellite; third dam Romper
dam of the performer and sire Golden
Bow, 2:27s), by Volunteer; fourth dam
by Seeley's American Star.
The fastest mile trotted by three
year old colt during the week was the
2;ls made by Axle, also son Of Axtell,
but that does not displace the 2 ;l4i of
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