Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-07-25

actly the same. How will these marks look
at the close of the season, and what horses
will wear the trotting and pacing crowns
when the winter comes? are questions
horsemen all over the country are asking
just now.
1t took over half century to lower the
pacing record from the 2:2S OF champion
Drover i'll 1859 to the 2:04 of Mascot and
nearly the same time to reduce the trotting
record from the 2:2S of Lady Suffolk in 1874
to the 2:O4 of Nancy Hanks. Until the adj
vent of the kite shaped track several years
ago and the coming of the bicycle sulky
last season harness racing records were
staid and sober thinGs-thinEs not broken
every year-but now the turf iconoclast is
in his glory. He has sulkies with ball bear
ing aNles and pneumatic tires and kite
shaped tracks with but "A single turn and
down hill all the way. There is even talk of
trying a pneumatic tired unicycle sulky,
and if the two minute trotter or PAGER is
not whinnying VIGOROUSLY before the cold
chilling winds of December are blowing
through its forrtop there will be n great
mnny turf prophets without honor any
where
Records are usually broken in August
and although it is somewhat early now to
look for sensational performances one was
on record this season before July was a
week old. The great California pacing
stallion Saladin seems to have champion
ship material in him, for he has already
paced a mile in the remarkably fast time
of 2O5S4 on TIE kirkwood del kite shaped
track and defeated the champion, Mascot,
by five lengths Saladin is years old and
was bred by L. J. Rose OF Los Angeles. He
is by Sultan-Ella Lewis and is owned by
James b. Green Of Wilmington, Del. who
trains and drives him. For the three years
he has been campaiGned Saladin has been
looked upon rs "A fast PAGER, and last year
he closed the season with "A mark of 2ll y
but few horsemen imagined that he would
pace in 2:053, and defeat the king Of all
''sidewheelers" in the very first race he en-
tered this year.
Saladin is already within ia seconds of
the worlds pacing record and only one
quarter of a second behind the worlds pac-
ing record for stations. now held by that
pluCky little flicr. Direct, 2:05'q. Like many
OTHER phcnomcnonS, Direct has seen honor
after honor slip from his possession into
that of some new turf wonder At the close
of 1891 the little black California stallion
had to his credit the pacing time champion.
ship, the stallion championship, the race
| championship and the record of having
paced the fastest heat i'll race. He had
beaten Hal Pointer in two races ont of
three and WAS a. near to being king of all
PAGERS a. any horse could he.
In lSH2 Direct reduced his record to 2:O5t ,,
| and Hal Pointer went still further by do
ing n grand mile in @;o4I, Before the veal
was over. however the pacing meteor, Mas,
| cot, a Celding whose pedigree beyond his
dam is unknown. had flashed across the
| turf, dimming all previous records with his
brightness and establishing the present
| record of 2:ol
With such wonderful PAGERS in the field
as Mascot, 2:O4; Saladin, 2:O5 Hal Point.
er, 20li..; Direct, 2;05' :; Flying Jih, 2:N5t.
Guy, 2OGa4: Roy Wilkes. 90 8; Nmctte
GOD; Blue o.sn, 2oot4; Manager and Rob