New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-14
HARNESS RACING.
TWO NOTED HORSES DEAD.

The noted PAGER Johnston. 206h, was put 10
death at Buffalo a few days ny his owner 1.
f. Dunbar. the horse having outlived his usefulness
Johnston was the first harness horse 10 cover a
mile IN 2iO and he lowered the record to 2:oo% -
long ago as 1854. when no other PAGER had oeateh
211s. The performance was made on an oval
track TO high-whee sulky. and II remains TO TINS
dav the best performance Of the kind In the record
books star Pointer. Joe Patchen and John X.
Gentry have tried repeatedly to take TINS RECORD
from Johnston, but all have failed Direct no"
owned by James Butler. pulled a high-wheei sulky
q mile in 200 In 1901 but his record was made on
,he kite-shaped track at Independence, not on an
oval course Although Johnstons record has been
beaten seven seconds since the pnsumauC NC sTky
,hat he was as fast az the best of them. and could
have set the record at 200 fourteen Years WIZ
Kittson owned Johnston in his best days having
g@iD Kim 10 his record at Chicago in 1884 lie
vas twenty-one years old when destroyed
Robert McGreror pity. the famous trottng
stallion that died last week at Toledo was in some
respecis the most remarkable sire ever known Al
though he was never At the head OF a great stud
and never had behind him an owner ike Governor
Stanford or William COrbitt. he got more Uole'S
Of extreme speed than either Electoneer or Iuy
Wik4~ or any other horse on record. HIS repre-
sentatives IN the 215 list include Cresceus 2~914
rurllne McGregor. 2:1la.; Nyanza. 2l2&.; RoXane'
212a,. Miss McGreeor. 213; Bonnie Mc"reso'
el2i.; Wynema. 213i; Count Robert -;io'ai
K,,ie Nc 2I3s.; Nelly McGregor 214; sydney
Nroc-agor GA: Dollkns. 214ie; Cornne 2l4i2
and Roslvn. 215 Robert McGregor was foaled In
ISL ~ chester Orange County, y. y, the proper
-, ~ Samuel Whitman. He was by MAJOR hus"''
",o a son OF Alexander's Abdallah, ana MIS- "li"
49,. nancy Whitman. by Seelys American star
,rbo horse was taken to Kansas when TWO or thice
vcars old and owned there ny H. !. ire' ~
,ronela Edward Corrigan. "Councllor W. II
crawford. 5. W. Wheelock. II. II. Gilman "eo'e o
1o,.,, and other owners and managers cam
TONED him between 1874 and 1879 anu ne was
irourr AZ one time as the fastest sloutes{ an! ovs
SfsIon on the turf circuit tollo"tIs ~ ~ q
Sim The Monarch Of the Rom 20 40 tor No
Madden paid something IKE e"o,VoV toi -
r."r when the horse was Afteen or sixteen Sent .
ga and after keeping him In kentucKE t W.
viu az olS him 10 W f. Spier. OF Cilens rams, iuo
present owner Of Directum 2'oSW5 .c;reseT about
S,so vesTs ago and tie horse died MS proPsIS
rrsems o.0Da the fastest OF the McGresoI ram,
/ liz was bred BY Mr. Ket cham, VINO nas ~ 81
him Tor exhibition at the Horse SHO" ''''' w."
The enterprising managers OF the 1os"e" ~
ing Park are already in the held WIN a.. -.
pents for their orange County circuit mems
1.gQ a purse OF 81 200 has been onereu '0r p"N.'
~ the free-for-all class and the association - a"
sured that the crack stations Johh n "o"''
o.ol, and Joe Patchen 2:0lli VIII be AMONG ,o
entries Two other purses, OF fi:g "a ciasscs An,
H. rae that has excited unusual lOv.t th.e
II, orr nee County is a sweepstakes l0i 60 T. II
ner with Robert Goeets NauIlhe. "a ipyfccbards !
Harriman's Rival 22C2 ana &c ~e0 sartefs TIE
tcocistion yin Id $500 10 the stakes maklhs '"e
neat sum Of 60 900 as prize for the "iN'1''