New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-19

turfman Moreover. the fractional time OF AK
fast miles proves beyond peradventure tha' 'ne
daughter of Patronage has the speed 10 ue,hrohe
Nancy Hanks whenever she is rated and driven
with a view TO breaking the record III the iHS'
heat she stepped the third quarter In 3o. SECONDS
and the fourth under slight restraint in 3ls max
ing her time for the last half lois4-a zoa's gait
In the second heat the pace was even slower so'ns
away Alix's time TO the half being l'ofSt-a -'o'2
galt-but down the slight decline between the s'e"
gilt globes which mark the hair ana 'he 'n'e.
quarters on the track at Terre Haute the ht'ie
mares sweeping strides carried her at the rate oi
a mile in 200 and again eased up at the finish. she
covered the half in lob. But her third neat was
the most remarkable OF all After having tro''en
two heats either OF which was enough 70 nave
pumped" the stoutest trotter. and. after SCORING
again and again before the word was finally gwen
AK once more moved TO the half no faster thah
a 9.oS gait Then with magnificent ourst vi
speed she sustained with a degree OF gaiiene'.
which no thoroughbred could surpass' she H"iSheO
at the rate OF a mile In 202is
McDoU'ers rating OF the mare was nothing ies'
than wretched II he sough, beat the record OF
Nancy Hank, in the final heat. When that master
rensnan Budd Noble. drove the queen y.
the turf q her record OF 2:oi on this same hsn.ns
course h. careful TO take her up 70 the nan ~
i:02s.. while AXIS time for the distance was i'V''
leaving her less than minute In when 10 com
pete the rest an impossible feat. OF course IL NC
DOWcll had Followed approximate! wv
Dobe It is not improbable that AK wou'u nave
equaei or beaten the trotting record in the third
heat OF a phenomenaly fast race.
To appreciate fully the greater merit OF AhNs
performances her past achievements Tor the sedsoh
mus, be considered. The little mare was wintered
by her owner. who Is not professional horsemah'
and IL was no; until abou, the middle OF July that
abe came into Monroe Sasburys experienced
hands As early June p. however, her o"hcI
drove AK an exhibition mile in 2:liig at CouncN
Bluffs Iowa. and on July I. at the same TRACK she
won A four-heat race from the Nebraska stallion
Robbie p trottng In 2:l5 PA and 2:l5 Mr.. SAILS
bury il known 10 make liberal use OF his horses
md within a few days after Alix came to him ne
rarted her IN the free-for-all AT Saginaw. Mlch.'
where she defeated Hamiins Nightingale In 2Ia'.'
2c9i. ana 2llia. The next week at Detroit WIZ
messed her first and only defeat this season The
track was new and the footing loose while Aiix'
although a wee m to OF scarcely fifteen hands,
strides something like twentythree feet ana there
fore requires the nrmest Of footing to do herseit
Justice The upshot was that Lord clinton a emp
per-galted' horse. gave the Iowa mare beating IN
straight heats time 209ie 2:ll&. 2lls. and Pixley
won second money. The following week at Cleve-
land found AK In her element on a hrm track
AK defeated Pixlsy and Walter f.. at Cleveland
trottng in 2:Os 2Osi. and e:O9i2 winning with COM
paratve
Two weeks later at Buffalo the ,ons-strioihs
little mare had a narrow escape from defeat when
she met the resolute stallion Paml!co in the free
ror-all The Buffalo course Is always conditioned
10 suit the sore-toed trotters Of its owners stable
away beneath her. Ax became eg-weary after
winning two heats. famlco outhhlsheu het III .nc
est over tc To a he Morrow alone saved the day
the racing queen some observers VINO , saw ns et
the daughter of Patronage down as a sort one:
but when AIN struck the Terre Haute course rise
imprint OF shoe like wax and never cups or
breaks away, she silenced the critics By trotting
anly fhp
II is well known that heat-racing is not the
nfight of speed When Budd Doble set out to point
began as cary as April to work her with this end
in view and from that time until she went to the
IS 1892 the mare not started in "A contest
against other horses for fear the ordeal of three.
speed She was saved and nursed like a prima
donna the through in ssng contrast hs Ses to
shipped about the country and raced against Inc
best on ae Sr s' Within the last % s
weeks. That. with such indifferent treatment and
M tast ana r"s With SUCH Sustained flight at the
finish of all her pumping out heats Is me most
at Tcrre Haute. In the eyes of nearly all horse.
men Alix has already eclipsed the best record OF
and The track and the queenly little mare all
good" she is pretty certain to sponge 2;oi from the
may perhaps. be done this week at Chicago.
T IS ns sr r sasSsry
has entered her In the freefor-all class but as he
has Also named Azote for the same race II Is al
together probable that Alix will be reserved for
special exhibition against time. The Washington
Park track Is of the fastest courses In the
country when II IL carefully conditioned, II was
there that Nancy Hanks first lowered Sunols
record OF 20St.. and there also that Flying Jlb
paced In 20i. and Directum reduced his mark to
2:06I, last Alix Is also engaged at the
New-York Grand Circuit meeting OF September
S-s. but the meay footing OF the Fleetwood course
she viii hardly anything sensational here. Later
In September she will be back in Terre Haute for
the return series in the MISREPRESENTATION circuit
and II is there that she viii probably have her
best opportunity to the trotting record down
below 20i.
Now that Allx has trotted the greatest race on
record and appears be on the point OF dethroning
Nancy Hanks. her history and her inheritance are
widespread interest. She was foaled In 1883 and
prominent and wealthy business and one OF
the pioneer trottlng-horse breeders OF the West
When Mr.. Hayes retired from extensive breeding
operations, In 1882 he sod the FLY at auction In
Chicago and she bought for about $500 by
Morris j. Jones, who then lived In Nebraska. but
is now n resident OF Red Oak, Iowa. Mr.. Jones put
her into the hands OF j. b. Chandler. now well
known as the driver Of Online G07A), Ontonian
2O7ls) etc. In the fall of 1890 Chandler trotted her
a few races the fairs In Iowa. finally giving her
record OF 2:So ut Independence on the famous
kite shaped track.
As a three-year-od AK trained and driven
by c. w. Williams OF Axtel.-Aerton fame. The
rustic reinsman VINO drove her and had then driven
A.erton record OF 2O9h foretod the future OF
AK when he declared at the c.osc OF the cam
pagn that the threeyear-od was the fastest trotsr