Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-07
LOWERING TRoTTiNG RECORDS

LOWERING TROTTiNG RECORDS
Is the great horse Crcsceus to be the
first two-mnute trotter2 He has but
two and a quarter seconds to clip of to
become that famous horse. Can he do
II? lie may possibly In his race with
The Abbot. which comes off the 18th
inst. Fire Chief scannel, owner Of
The Abbott, looks TO see 2;Ol made be-
fore the close Of the season, and Of
course he expects TO see his own horse
or his great competitor make It. But
clipping seconds or even fractions Of
seconds of such low records as The
Abbot and Cresceus hold is most diff
hcult matter and 1t usually takes sew
cral years 10 do Il.
Lady Suffolk was the first to score a
record below 2:90 At Hoboken, N. j..
Oct, 18th. lsi5, she made 229la.
That record stood for four years when
Pelham, at Centreyille N y, July End.
lSl9, reduced It to 2;2s. Four years la
ter IIighland Maid, at Centreyille. n
Y, June 9Th, 1868, made the mile In
2;27 Then Flora Temple. at East New
York n Y, Sept. end 1856. reduced the
record to 2'2iIs. As Lady Suffolk was
the FIRST trotter to beat 2;3O so the dis
tlnction Of being the first trotter to
put the record under 2:2O belongs to
that great mare, Flora Temple. At
Kalamazoo, Mich. Oct 1Jth 1859. she
put the trotting mark down TO 2;la%
which stands as her record. At Bos-
ton, July 3Oth, 1867. on a half-mie
track, Dexter went In 219. It having
taken eight years to knock off two and
three-quarter seconds. At Buff
falo the same year Dexter
reduced his record to 2i7H. At Mil
waukee, Sept 9th. 1871, Goldsmiths
Maid made the mile in 2.17 Hat. At
Boston, sept End, 1874, she reduced the
record 10 2;li That stood for four
years when Rarus, at Buffalo, Aug. 3rd,
1878, marked the record down to 2.iS&.
a year later at Oakland Cal, ST. Ju-
lien. Oct 25th, 1879, made ppm, estab-
fishing q new record. stlll year later
Maud $, AT Rochester, n. Y, Aug. 18th,
1880, placed AIM opposite her name.
The same day at the same place ST.
julien did the mile In the same record
time. At Hartford, CT, Aug. eth, 1850,
he made a new record-2l1A. At Chi.
cago, the same year Sept 18th, Maud
5. again reduced the reeord--to 2IOA.
Al Rochester n. Y, Aug. 18th, 1881. she
further reduced the record to 2;lOh.
AT Providence, II. l., Jay Eye-See,
made the trottng record 2:10 1t was
not further reduced until 1884. when
Maud $ reduced II twice, to 2;O9A. at
Cleveland, Aug. end. and to 2O9A at
Lexington, Ky, Nov. II. The next
year at Cleveland, July SOth, she re-
duced the time to 2:OS&, which stands
as the great Kentucky mares record.
Il stood for six years. when Sunol, the
California wonder, at Stockton, Cal.
oct 2Oth 1891, made the rotting rec
ord 2;OSh, The year following Nancy
Hanks, at Chicago. Aug. 18th. reduced
the record just a second making II
2:O1h. At Independence, Ia, Aug. 81,
she reduced It two seconds more, and
at Terre Haute, Ind, Sept. goth, she
placed It al 2;OL There 1t remained un-
ill the mare Allx at Galesburg, H.,
Sept. 18th. 1894, made new record
2;0SA. That record stood for six years,
when The Abbott. al Ter,e Hapte, Ind.
2.07h At Independence, Ia. Aug. Slst,
Sept 10th, 1900, made a record OF 2;0Sh.
This year Cresceus, at Cleveland, July
Goth, cut the record down half second,
placing It at 2:02&. At Columbus, o.,
last week he reduced It TO 2;02h.
Flora Temple reduced the record Ave
times in FIVE years, four In the same
year, 1859. Dexter reduced it twice, and
In the same year Goldsmith's Maid
reduced It six times, four in 1874, ST.
julien equaled 1t once and beat 1t once
the same year. Maud ;. reduced the
record seven times. Twice In 1850,
twice in 1881, twice In 1884, and once In
1855. Nancy Hanks reduced it three
times In 1892. This year Cresceus has
lowered the record twice, and may
lower It again, All are anxiously walt
ing to see II he does.