Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-02-03
JOSEPH BATTELL
Middlebury, VT.
LOBASCO 2iOf, WHO HOLDS THE
WORLDS TROTTlNG Stall
LION RACE RECORD.

LION RACE RECORD.
The champion stallion record has been
held by seven different horses since Edw.
Bither drove Phalias in 2:l34 at Chicago
in 1881. As that mile was made III
race Phalas held the distinction not only
of holding the worlds stallion trotting
record, but also the race record for entire
horses. In contrast to the number OF
times that record has been reduced by
stations in trips against time it may be
stated that but three stations have held
the race record since that time. These
were Palo Alto, 2:l3 in 1890, Delmarch,
2:l2 in 1891, and Lobasco, 2 :lOl III 1872
Upon the front page of this issue we pre-
sent an Illustration of Lobasco, the pre-
sent champion race stallion, which is pro-
nounced by all who have seen it as the
most typical likeness of the horse that
has been made. 1t was in 1856 that Lob
asco was foaled, the property of Jno. w.
Fisher, Paris, Ky. He was sold the fol-
lowing year to Nat Bruen of Burlington,
Iowa, and by him owned and campaigned
until the close of his four-year-old sea-
son, when he became the property of his
present owner, Jas. G.. Ladd, Beatrice,
Neb. Lobasco's career upon the turf,
which covers period of four years, has
been series of successive triumphs. lie
has been bread-winner every season.
lie has improved constantly not only
nrOuin,r
himself better and faster with every OPP
portunity, and his limit is yet matter
of speculation. TO review his career
briefly, it may be stated that he started
in his first race as three-year-old in
1889. and during July, August and Sep
TENDER of that year he trOtted seven
races, three of which he won and was
second in the other four events. He
closed the campaign at Burlington, Iowa,
where he defeated the fast Texas colt,
Reno's Baby, September 10, and obtained
arecord of 1881 over a poor half-mic
track.
In 1890 Mr.. Bruen was satisfied that
he had "a great colt, and in Iowa Smiths
hands he campaigned from June to
November. His first three races in June
were utilized purely as an educational
factor, he not being driven to win in
either case. but from Peoria, ILL.,, where
he entered the , 80 list for the first time,
winning his race in straight heats in
2:20b, 2:2S1 and 1872, he continued a
triumphal march through all of the
western circuits, proving almost irwin
chile in his class. Out of his thirteen
races of that year he won eight and
closed the season with race record of
2:2l in the fourth heat at Council Bluffs,
October Z. 1t was after this race that
he was purchased by Mr.. Iadd and had
he so desired it is more than probable
that I.Obasco could nave taken record
of 2l7 or better in his four year-old
form.
Afler wintering and being logged up
on the road at Beatrice, Lobasco was
shipped to NJ f. McIIenry late in
the season and was started in six races
In 1891, three of which he won, and in
such horses as Pickpana, Vic H.. and
Honest George. His greatest race of the
season was at Independence. in which he
defeated Bonnie Wilmore after driving
that horse out in the second heat in
2:l44 and himself taking record of
2:l64. His last race of that season was
at Cambridge City, September 26, when
he had developed quarter crack and
was therefore not able to start at Terre
Haute and Lexington, at both of which
places he would have had probable vic
tories had he been right
Again in 1892 Mr.. Ladd sent Lobasco
TO McIIenry and while he did not win as
many races perhaps as in former years,
he met the greatest campaigners that
were out and achieved pre-eminence as
race horse by defeating such good ones
as AllertOn, Little Albert, Vic H., Jack
and Una Wilkes and Grattan. 1t was at
st. Joseph, Mo-, September II, that he
trotted the greatest race of his life, win
ming the second, third and fourth heats
in gaia, 2 :10a and 2:l3. just as he was
in the previous year, however. he was
troubled with his feet, and his campaign
could not be continued. 1t was while
suffering from gravel six weeks after
starting IN his last race that he entered
the special with Walter E., where he
won a heat in 2:l5i, and drove the geld