The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-08

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Forty years ago next July Robert Bon
ner bought his first driving horse and at
that time but 10 horses, living and dead
had trotted to records better than 2:3O
To-day there are is with records of 2:OSA
or better, and the 2:30 list, living and
dead. has swelled to 1900. How closely
Mr.. Bonner has been connected with the
onward march of Improvement is concise
ly stated by himself in his introduction
to the catalogue of the trotting stock at
his farm near Tarrytown, when he says:
Besides such record breakers as Dex-
ter. 2:l7l4; Rarus, 213A; Maud s., 2:0SA,
and Sunol, 2:0SA, l own, or have owned,
Alfred s.. record, PISA; Edwin Forrest,
record 2:1S-trial 2:11% Picard, record
pisa; Ansel, record, 2:2O; Music, record
2:21h; Mosey, record 2:2lA; Joe Elliott,
the first horse to trot public trial in
2:15ls; May Bird. record 2:2l; Peerless
trial 2.23A to wagon, driven by Hiram
Woodruff, the fastest mile the great
driver ever drove any horse; Elfrida, rec
ord 2l312; Grafton. record 2:2212; Poca-
hontas, record 2:263a-trial 2:17A; Star
tle the first Eastern-bred 3-year-old to
get record of 2:36. and the first horse TO
trot a public mile on Fleetwood in 2:19.
To this list / could add Maud Macy,
Lady Stout and several others with rec
ords better than 2:30, to- say nothing of
Lady Palmer and Flatbush Maid, the
first team TO trot a public trial in 2:26
over 80 years ago."
The winnings of the Village Farm sta
BILE on the trotting turf have averaged
nearly $4,000 a year for the past five
years.
The trotting record of Australia Is
now 2:l4 1-5, and is held by the geding
Fritz. an Australian by birth and an
American in blood. His sire and dam were
nurtured in the blue grass country.
A $1,000 stake for 2l1 trotters has been
added to the October programme of the
Kentucky Breeders association.
Byron McClelland is either possessed of
most excellent judgment or is one of For
tunes favorites. 1t is not many years ago
since he was subjected to the frowns OF
the tickle goddess and suddenly found
himself at the bottom of the ladder. But
nothing daunted, he started upward
again and has been steadily climbing
Badge. Henry of Navarro. Sallie Nc
Clelland, The Commoner, Halma and 9TH
er good ones have helped his ascent in
the past, and in Prince Lief and Nimrod
he now appears to have two of the most
promising 3-year-olds in the West. The
former showed his ability on the metro
politan courses last season and on Mon
day last won the Distillers' stakes at
Lexington in time which lowered the To-
cal record for a mile and a sixteenth
Nimrod is a full brother to the great
race mare Huntress, and was purchased
last season by McClelland. He is not in
the Kentucky Derby. but is one of the
entries in the Clark stakes at the ap-
preaching Louisville meeting.
Charles Head Smith, the millionaire
stakeholder of Chicago has started out
well with the Eastern string of his stable.
his 2-year-old Domitor winning at Ben
nings on Monday last. Mr.. Smith is quite
a plunger when he has assurance from his
trainer that his horses are right, and II Is
more than likely that he won comforta-
BILE sum over the victory of the son of
Inspector b., as that colt was neglected
by the public for Florian and Winged
Foot and started at the odds of to 1 in
a field of four.
Major Barak G.. Thomas of Lexington
still clings to the name of Dixiana, al
though his stock farm, which originally
bore IL. has passed into other hands. The
pride of his heart is the once famous
race horse Himyar now a most success
full stallion. head OF the winning series in
1898, second in 1894 and among the first
five i'm 1895. Himyar's get are unusually
good campagners. Fourteen of his best
sons and daughters have won a total of
$50 races. an average of q wins for each
Greenwich, q 6-year-old mare last sea-
son, has captured 40 races and been
placed In 63 others out of 143 starts