Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-13
THE ABBOT
IS CHAMPION.

The worlds trotting record was
lowered at Terree Haute on the
afternoon of September 25th by
Abbot to 2:OsA. which is a re-
duction of half a second of the record
made by Alix at Galesburg, ILL.,. Sept. 10.
1894. The new champion trotter is a
fine formed seven-year-old bay geld
ing by Chimes, dam Nettie King, by
Mambrino King. He is a product of the
noted Village Farm, located near East
Aurora, n owned by G. j. n Harry
Hamlin of Buffalo. He still belongs to
the veteran breeder and his son, and to-
day he was driven by the skillful reins-
man Ed. F.. Geers, who is the chief
trainer for the Hamlins and has given to
since a colt. The Abbot e. into winter
quarters last rel with a record of 2:O6A
and has shown SO well publicly that
many expert horsemen thought him n
of the greatest trotters ever fOaled. This
year, there being no regular classes For
him on account or the scarcity OF trotters
in training with extreme fast records, the
horse has been gradually prepared for his
effort today. During several exhibitions
against time he bowed improvement
right along, so that when the horse land
ed here a few days ago he had the best
gelding record, 2:04. made at the Empire
City track, New York, and the best
wagon mark for trotters. 2:O5h, made at
the same place.
The track was in the finest of con-
dition. The footing was perhaps nearly
as perfect as could be, and if there was
any handicap to retard the gelding's
speed it was the slight head WING in the
first and last quarters. The Abbot was
paced by two runners that were driven
by John Dickerson and Charles Lyons.
The fractional time of the mile was
0:31A, 1:02A, 1:31A, 2:03A. After the
phenomenal exhibition there was contin-
ued cheering and great excitement, as
tn crowd, though not vry large, had been
brought up to a high pitch by the great
performance to wagon by Coney, driven
by Edwin Gaylor, an amateur. Many
watches in the hands of experts who
stood close to the wire or were right over
it favored Coney as against the official
time, making 1t as fast as 2:O3h, and
some even faster. In the case of The Alb
bot the same is true in showing the con-
s%ervatism of the official timers, as many
"clocked" the trotter's mile in 2:O3A and
others in 2:03.
The mark of 2:0sA is now the worlds
record for PAGERS to wagon driven by al
amateur. 1t was set up by the five-year-
old black gelding Coney, with a sulky
record Of 2:O3A, by Mckinney, dam Grace
Kaiser, by Kaiser. He was bred by John
w. Gardiner of Los Angeles, Cal. Today
Coney was driven by Edwin Gaylord, a
member Of the Gentlemen's Driving Club
of Denver and wealthy roadite of the
Rocky Mountain city. The wagon record
for PAGERS, plotted by an amateur driver
was 2:O4A, held by the Chicago roadite
G. K. G. Billings and his gelding Fret
Bond. This performance took place a
h EnnpiEs City course, New York, week
before last. Tn horse, is owned by
James Butler, proprietor of the East
View Stock Farm. New York, and he is
a member of the racing stable managed
by Thomas F. Heating. Mr.. Gaylord
never a driven the horse until today.
He gave him a couple of slow warming
up miles before his successful effort
against the worlds record. The fractional
time Of the latter mile was 0:30R, 1:01A,
1872. 2:03A. There was a fairly strong
head wind blowing through the last quar-
ter Of the mile, and all experienced horse
men assert that only for this Coney
would have gone in 1908, if not better.