Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-12-15


element, that has done it 80 much dam
aye In past years, will never come to the
surface again. Booming. in any bust
ness, is ultimately more disastrous to
that business than is the worst possible
form of temporary inactivity. Booming
has but single redeeming quality, and
that is the ultimate 'swamplng' of the
'bO0mcrs' themselves"
When buyers drive four days through
one of the best horse sections of the
State of Maine to find out one or two
fine, stylish gentlemen's drivers and re-
turn empty handed. one of three things
must be true, says the Bangor (Me.)
Commercial. The barns are empty, the
owners prefer to hold rather than sell,
or the quality is inferior. The facts
are the barns are not empty, the money
market Is hard. and the surplus farm
products light. so that it is reasonable
to infer that the explanation may be
found in quality. One or two gentle
men from another State who had spent
four days driving over Maine in search
of II couple of good horses say that
while willing to pay round sum for
what they wanted. they did not find
the animals. 1--WE found plenty with
heavy heads, duh eyes, long backs, high
coupling and low action, but evidently
they have been driven to speed. and
we're practically valueess at walking or
road gait"
The year 1893 has been wear of
great events in the trottiug world, in
most respects greater than any of its
predecessors. Scarcely any of the
records that were the champion records
at the beginning of the year remain UNI
fractured. The stallion record, the
four-year-old record and the race record
were all broken by one great horse in
one great mile. The three-year-old
record has been reduced to what was but
a few years ago the worlds record at
any age. Two of the greatest records
stand, however, llenged-Nancy
Hanks 2 :04 and Arion's = :l03 made as
two-year-old
Nancy Hanks fastest mile, 2:04 was
at Terre IIaute; her fastest quarter,
29l seconds. the third quarter of mile
at Independence and at Sedalia she trut-
ted the first half IN sol; at Nashville
she trOtted the middle half in :0li; at
Terre IIaute she finished the last half ia
:04i. Her best first quarter, 30 sec
H., ro,nrJoI I,l
enCe and Sedalia best second quarter,
81 seconds, at both these places, at Nash
vile and at Boston and Chicago this
year; at New Albany she trotted last
quarter in exactly 30 seconds. Her
winnings, exclusive of purses for oXhi-
billions in 1891. for which no figures are
quoted, reach SCI .954.
Dunn Walton of New York is one of
runs back into history. At the New
! DIRK sales last week he said to Il repre-
sentative of The Breeder: 81 recall
when | bought sulky that weighed
sixty pounds. Hiram Woodruff looked
it over and said | must be "A fool to trust
myself in such a rig. At that time our
sul<ies weighed from seventy to eighty
pounds. | also saw Ethan Allen trOt IA
quarter IN thirty-four seconds. htched
to skeleton wagon that would weigh
about l2j pounds. As to road pairs, =
Mr.. Walton said, 'there never was but
one pair hitched together that, no matter
which made break, you need not slack
en- the pace of the other for him to
catch, and that was Ethan and Honest
Allen. No matter which left his feet,
you had simply to touch him with the
whip and send him along a little faster,
and he at once would Jump back into
his gait. OF the two Honest was the
handest."