The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-17
Butte Department.
THEY ARE LEADERS
Sixty-Six TrotterS With Records
From 1903 ga to 2:1l.
THE REDUCTION OF TIME
Alix Is the Fastest Mare, Azote the
Swiftest GeldIng and Direc-
tum Is at the Head of
All the Stations.
THE REDUCTION OF TIME


within the memory of men now living.
1t meant a mile in three minutes no
longer than 1878, when Major William
Jones. at a jockey club dinner on Long
island. where trotting had come under
discussion, made a wager of $1,000 that
he could produce a horse capable of
trotting a mile in three minutes. The
proposed feat was then deemed to be
nearly impossible. and the odds on
time" were immense. but Boston Blue,
the horse named at the post by Major
Jones, won the wager, gaining as great
renown as the champions of to-day.
AS late as 1916 the horse that could
trot in 2:30 was a world-beater. and
anything approaching that degree of
speed passed as a sensational perform
ance. There are something like $4,000
trotters in the 2:S0 class now, and the
time has long since gone by when miles
in 2:3O will win much money on the
trotting turf. Alix would have left the
once phenomenal 2:30 trotter almost a
quarter of a mile behind at the finish
in her record-brealxing heat in 2:03A.
Flora Temple, whose 2:19% was not
only unbeaten but was thought to be
unbeatable in 1859. would have been
just about a furlong from home when
the daughter of Patronage sped past
the wire at Galesburg in 1894, and even
Saint julien. 2:11A, in his palmy days
would have been ingloriously distanced,
reckoning by the records as they stand,
without making any allowance for i'm
proved sulkies, tracks, and methods of
training the trotter.
AS a matter of course there can be no
nxed, Interchangeable standard of ex-
IRENE speed at the trotting gait so long
as the best time on record is thus being
reduced and scores of horses are every
year surprising the records which
email. Perhaps the best dividing line is
one which includes all horses whose
speed would enable them to keep from
being distanced in a race against the
champion of the trotting turf, and ex-
cludes all others. A horse that has any
pretensions to being classe das a first
rater should be able to save his dis
lance in any company.
With the worlds record at 2:03A. the
dividing line is at 2:11, and the list
which is printed below comprises every
trotter whose record speed would carry
him inside the 100-yard limit i'm a theor-
etical contest with Alix. There were
sixty-siX of these first raters at the
close of last campaign, all except five
gaining their best records since the
pneumatic sulky came into use in 1892.
Five of the lot are dead, two have been
exported, others retired to the stud or
the road, while a good share of the
cracks are still on the turfs, or will be
II all goes well, when the campaign of
1896 opens next spring. The 2:11 list,
with the name of driver. follows:
Alix, b. m. foaled 1888. by Pat
ronage, dam Atlanta, by Attor-
ney; Galesburg. ILL.,. Sept. 10,
1894, Andrew Mcdowell. ... 2:03%
Nancy Hanks. b. m. 1856. by
Happy Medium. dam Nancy
Lee, by Dictator; Terre Haute,
Ind, Sept. rs, 1892. Budd Doble. 2:o4
Azote, b. g.. 1856. by Whips. dam
Josie, by Whipple's Hambleto-
MAN; Galesburg, ILL.,, Sept. /,
1895, Andrew Mcdowell. No.. 2:04% |
Directum. blk c.. 1889, by Direct
or, dam Stemwinder. by Vent
ure; Nashville, Tenn, Oct is,
1893. John Kelly. ........... 2:O5A |
Fantasy, b. m, 1890, by Chimes.
dam Homora. by Almonarch:
Terre Haute, Ind, Sept. Is, 1894,
E. F. Geers. ..................... 2:O6
Beuzetta. CHI. T., 1891. by Onward
dam Beulah, by Harold Buffa-
10, n. Y, Aug. 3, 1895. Gus
Macy. ;::;:......:... -. :. -. 2:O6s.
Ralph Wilkes, CHI. s., 1889, by
Red Wilkes, dam Mary Mays.
by Mambrino Patchen: Nash
Vile, Tenn, Oct. 10. 1894, James
Golden. 49,: :....... -. 2:Os%
4
Ia Claus, dam Lulu NJ, by 1
Dauntless; Detroit. Mich. July
%. 1895, H. E. Kline. ........ 2:O7A
Stamboul. br. s., 1882, by Sultan,
dam Fleetwing, by Rysdyk's
Hambletonian: Stockton. Cal.
Nov. %, 1892, Walter Maben... 2:07lk
Arion, b. c.. 1889. by Electioneer.
dam Manette, by Nutwood:
Lexington, Ky, Oct. IL. 1898.
John Diekerson........ 49,. 2:O7s4
kremlin. b. s., 1887. by Lord Rus
sell, dam Eventide. by Wood
ford Mambrino; Nashville
Tenn. Nov. IL, 1892. f. d.
Bither: 49,. =. -. =. =. =. 2:O7&
Ryland T., b. g., 1884. by Ledger,
Jr., dam May INVERSION. by Ul-
version; Cleveland. o., July &C.
1894. R. J. Stewart. ............. 2:O7H
Martha Wilkes. b. m, 1888, by
Alcyone, dam Ella Marders. by
Clark Chief; Independence
Ia, Sept. /. 1892. Budd Doble.. 2:Os
Nightingale. en-. m, 1885. by
Mambrino King. dam Mime
qua Maid. by Woods Handle
tonian; Terre Haute. Ind, oct
4. 1895, +. i. Geers ........ 2.Os
)noqua, b. T., 1891. by Keller dam
Belle b., by ]. r. Shedd; Terre
Haute. Ind, oct. 4. 1895. John
Hussey. ..:....:............... 2:OSK
'ixley, b. m, 1885. by Jay Gould.
dam Lotto. by Gen. Washington:
Lexington, KY. Oct. II. 1893.
John Dickerson. ..:.......... 2:OSK
unol. b. m, 1856. by Electioneer.
dam WaXana, by Gen Benton:
Stockton. Cal. Oct 20. 1891.
char!es Marvin. ....:...:...... 2:OsH
'revillian. b. s., 1889 by Young
Jim. dam Miss Kittredge. By !
Gambetta: Nashville. Tenn.
oct. Is. 1894. Joseph II. Thayer 2.OSr
iulda, b. m, 1885 by Guy
Wilkes dam Jenny Spreckles. .
by Bull Pup; Buffalo. y. Y.
Aug. 2, 1893. Orrin A Hickox 2.OSi.
.lamath. b. E.. 1895. by Morook-
us. dam Lady Ophir. by Ophir. ,
Detroit. Mich, July .. 1895
Thomas Raymond .... .......... 9.0Si.
ockheart. b. s.. 1SSG. by MT
wood. dam Rapidan. By DIcta :
tor Hedrick. Ia. Sept -. 1895.
by V. i. Shuler g-0sl.
hoebe Wilkes. br. III. lSN-. by
n a..