Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-10
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speed making the saddle was the only
harness put upon the trotting race
horse The PAGER i'll those early days
WAS ignored-positively dreaded. as
the trotting gated horse was then
considered the ideal of perfection as 4
seutlcman's roadster. Today the
PAGER stands for all he is worth in the
sale ring and on the race track. wing
with the trotter for supremacy and
receiving almost an equal considera-
tion by the speculatiVely inclined.
The breeding Of the trotting horse
concerned none or few till about 1870
ana even then no depth If study was
given to TIL subject aside for q hap
hazard nicking Of likely strains. As
these matings began to show the un-
mstakable value Of improved breed
ing. the shrcwd owners Of good mares
ana stations began systematic ami
studied consideration with result
that as early as 1868 began to spread
its influence over the then half made
and half-cared-for race tracks.
DeXter's performance came slow with
1870. In three successive Ne;fiS he
dropped the record from 2lN'4. to us. to
eli. These were the DAYS in which the
possibilities of the trottcr We're really Sc
riolSlY considered. Then the never true
gated GoldSmths Maid appeared. and
her performance dcthroned thu champion
Dexter. Her miles in IN. al6t4 ana 21i
in the years 1871, 1877 ANA 1873 awokc the
whole universe % ne value ~ the har-
ness horse. After that ana for seven
years the ducling with speed between
Maud :. and JaY-Eyc-Scc continued with
only catch results for the little bay trot-
ter. Rarus interviewed between Gold
smiths Maid ana Maud s. These Were
the days that wrought up the dormant
enthusiasm of the american people in the
matter of racing to sulky. When Maud
s was advertised to start. no greater
crowds before or since thronged the in
closures to see the queen of the turf.
In 1893 the pneumatic sulky appeared
and with its wind-intlatcd rubber tires
disappeared the before considered unbeat-
able records of trottcr ana PAGER. The
toe weights had been introduced away
back in the sixties, when every possible
effort was being made Ia trot the spo cdy
pacing gated horses ot those days. To
square away a horse rs high rs two
pound shoes We're uSed-and Vet the am
be would apuear Then il was an eye
sore. but later found its way To the top.
When legs and fctc began to give way
to unreasonable shooting and before the
PAGER was given the place in racing cir
cles that he commands today, the hop
pies were introduced with more or less
success in the eating of mixed horses,
but they were. ami are now, used with
the best results in Steadying the crratic
PAGER. Until the several antipool State
laws now existing were made Il secretary
would have been considered absolutely
dementcd if he Were to announce mixed
racing classes for trotterS and PAGERS. In
the making of speed the late years OF the
closing century have produced marvels.
But these same years have deteriorated
from the strict and almost religious in
tent of the early days OF our forefather
horsemen Of producing speed by the trot-
ting gait solely. In those days the gray
haired men who have come down the
tn1l ne n GI1nnth-
gated ones were few. We know that a
rougher-gaited trotter never raced than
that remarkable and wcll-remembered
race mare GoldSmith'S Maid.
When the sulky was first introduced ii
was heavier and bulkiCr and far less
practical for racing than. our working
carts of TODAY and the appearance of
driver when mounted on one of those old