The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
IRI)TI|NI RECORD CLIPPED
WONDERFUL Dew OF
SPEED IN HARNESS HORSES IN
- CLOSING CENTURY
YANKEE ONCE HEADED LIST
The Last Decade Wonderful in That
Nearly Every Star Performer
Recorded the Low
Marks.

DIES MONIES To-, Dec 29.-(Special
Correspondence)-In these closing DAYS
OF the nineteenth century it is but
natural that one should become retros-
pective and many an interesting tale is
unfolded of the good old racing days by
the old horsemen, as they ''score up
around the stove. Stripped of their toe
weights, quarter boots and knee spread
ers, they are well "geared up. to go a
bruiSinge race so long as the track laws
in close proximity to the red hot stove,
whose warmth in winter is almost equal
to the hearty reception accorded by the
ran birds and occupants of the grand
stand at the end of hot finish at the
Hamiine track. during the balmy days in
September. The long-comings as we'll as
short-geings of the prospective oat-eat,
ers Of past seasons is thoroughly dis
cusSed. and many phenomenal mile
(unfecorded) is diagnosed most emphatic
ally.
Ia looking back over the harness
horse races of the nineteenth century
there are many startling incidents I'M
folded; for the evolution of the harness
horse from the mile trotted by Yankee
in 1906 in 2:59 on half-mile track, to
the worlds record paced by Star Pointer
in 1897 in / :59i4 has been marvellous. IT
may not he anfss to give the fastest
records established at the different
decades since 1900. From 1900 to 1910
Yankee held the trotting record, having
made q mile on a half mile track at
Harlem. N: Y, in June. 1885, in 2:5S. In
1919 the chestnut gelding, Boston Horse,
reduced the record to 2.4S13 at Phila-
delphia in August In 1918 q second
three-minute horse appeared in the black
gelding Bolton Blue, who went a mile
at Jamaica, N V. in exactly 300 min
Utes From 1920 to $780, long distance
Doh
Iished as follows Oct 8, 1927, Rather,
pedigree unknown, trotted 2 miles in
F.24 while the chestnut seldirg, Screw
driver by Commander, dam Mount
Holly, in 1928. trotted 8 miles in see.
On Sept. :, 1895 the PAGER, Bowery Boy,
pedigree unknown, paced two miles in
5.0lt. The same year Topgallant, by
Coriander, dam by Bishops HANDLE
tofian. trotted miles in Sill, and on
Oct. 10 went miles in 11:04. From 1880 to
1916 several seconds were clipped off the
record In 1884 Edwin Forrest trotted a
mile in 2:311a, while Sally Miller, by Tip
poo Jr., the same year earned mark Of
2:a37. -lady Suffolk, the good gray marc
established a two-mile record in 1889 of
5:it which was reduced the same year
by the bay gelding, Confidence, by Sir
Henry, son of Garret Horse to Sill. In
1888 Oneida Chief, by kentucky Hunter,
paced q mile in 2:31 and in 1889 paced two
. miles in 5;G9l2 In 1889 Drover. a bay
gliding of unknown breeding, paced q
Tsi,e in Fps From 1910 to 1850, the trot>
ting record was still further reduced,
starting in 1Si5, when Lady Suffolk went
=. mile in 2:291g and the bay gelding, Mos
COW; earning q record of 2:90, Pelham, a.
r. bay gefditg of unknown origin, in 1S49
reduced &th6. trotting record to 2:2S, and
the same year another trotter sprang
into prominence in Lady Sutton by Nor
N...,~lg..
, trotting-a mile in 2:30. In 1874 chestnut
getaing of obscure origin paced d mile in
2.2}, while in 1915 James X. Polk, earned
pacing mark of 2:27.
- The decade from 1850 to 1860 was SEN
satfonal one in the horse world and
Ilew 3reeords. all around were established
In 1852 the roam gelding Pet lowered the
pacing record to 2:1S1a, which he held un-
all 1850 when Pocahentas, by Iron S
sCadmus lowered it to 2:17A. In 1855
the trotting record was lowered to 2:27
: by the bay mare Highland Maid, by
Ssltram and the roam gelding .Tacony
By Sportsman. In 1858 the great bay
p horse Ethan Allen, by Black Hawk 5
tFotted in 2.2S In 1859 George M~Pat-
chen. by Cassius NJ Clay, earned a
mark of 2:26A, followed by Brown Dick
s31y s son of American Star IA, who went
a mile in 2:z5% Then stepped forth
the mighty Flora Temple, by Bogus Hun
ter and set the trotting record at PISA
There was a still further chopping OF
the records from 1860 to 1870 The great
stallion Ethan Allen, in 1860 set the bal
rolling by lowering his record from 2:2'
TO 2:25k, but not to be outdone by the
Green Mountain sire, George NJ. Patchen
the same year reduced his record tt
.Ss1as In 1867 Dexter, by Hambletoniar
10, electrified turtles by stepping a mile
In Rita, reducing the trotting record two
fRlt seconds. In 1865 the great sire
George Wilkes, made q. record of 2:22
while George Palmer, a brown gelding
by Palmer Bogus 1850, earned a marx
of s:211S as aid Mountain Bow, by Ed.
ward Everett 81. During the fall Of
- earned mark of 2:1S1z. In 1869 Ameri
can Gill by c. NJ. Clay Jr. 81, estab
Iisfed a record Of 2:19 and was closely
chased by Goldsmith Maid, by AbdallaI
IS. who was -ated mile in 2:1912. II
1865 Billy Boyee, by Corbeau IS, paced 9
mile in 2;14l, and in 1869 Yankee San
quit with mark Of 2:161a pacing. TIL,
decade from 1870 to 1880 was an eventfu
ones as the records were smashed righ
1nerriiy. In 1874 Goldsmith Maid an(
American Girl strove nightly for trot
tiHg honors and the season closed Will
the Maid carrying all before her anC
earning mark of 2:14, while American
i Girl retired with 2:1615 to her credit. II
1sa Lula, by Norman 25, earned her mari
Of 2:15. In 1876 the stallion Smuggler
Dr. Bianco, turned the track in 2:15A Il
ISIS RaFus wrested the trotting record