The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-10
WAS GREAT SEASON
FOR new RECORDS
Seconds Were Clipped From
Former Marks in Almost
Every Department.

The present season has been dis
tinctly greatest in the annals of har-
ness horse racing, not only because
greater number Of records have been
broken, but also because so many re-
markably fast horses have been devel-
oped The most sanguine of horsemen
could not have predicted such sue
cessful season. In nearly every depart.
ment Of the sport new marks have
been set and in most cases three or
even four seconds have been clipped
off the old records. With such rapidity,
in fact, have new marks been set that
in one event, to road wagon, the rec
ord was held by Major Delmar but for
a few minutes.
At the beginning of the season the
harness world thought that with the
advent OF the two-minute trotter the
best possible achievement had been
accomplished, but Lou Dillon had then
only begun to show what she was ca
pable of, and the trottink mark for
mile is now 1889. Many horsemen
go so far as to predict that next season
will see the trotting record lowered to
1:55 and the pacing mark to 1853.
The carnival of record breaking be-
gan at Brighton Beach on Aug. 10,
when Dan Patch lowered Star Point
er's record of 1884 to 1:59 fat 1t
was on Aug. "a at Readville that G. K.
G. Billings wonderful little mare, the
queen of the trotting world electrified
all sportdom by stepping mile in 2: 90
! fiat, thereby cutting 2A seconds from
the record held by Cresceus.
Just a month later Prince Alert, the
VQfnr9n rno patnh'c mo- Ir
Of 1:59 look exceedingly cheap when
at New York he journeyed mile in
| the remarkable time of 1857. The ac-
cusation was made that the Prince
was under the influence of stimulat-
| ing dope when he made his fast mile,
but the record stood. However, Dan
| Patch, not to be outdone even by a
! doped horse, paced a mile in 1:56A at
Memphis on Oct. 26, thereby clipping
| three-fourths of a second from Prince
| Alert's record Up to date no PAGER
| has succeeded in lowering this mark
and Dan Patch probably will occupy
| the pacing throne until the opening of
| next season at least. From 1:59A the
| pacing record was lowered to 1864, a
| difference of three seconds, during the
I season.
| Lou billions two minute mark was
equaled on Sept. 25 at the Empire City
| track by E. e. Smathers' great trotter,
| Major Delmar, and until Oct. 10 there
| were two champions of the trotting
| world. On that day one of the greatest
| sensations of the year was sprung
when the report was sent out from
| Wichita, Kan, that Cresceus had trot-
| ted mile i'll 1:59%. BY many this
feat was discredited, and there are
still a great number of skeptics. How
ever, few days later, at Memphis,
Lou Dillon, just to show that she was
| really entitled to the throne, stepped a
| mile in 1881 without turning hair.
OF all the big meetings held this sea-
| son the one at Memphis holds the rec
| ord for the greatest number Of records
broken. Dan Patch lowered his own
worlds sulky record of mile from
| 1:59 to 1:56A. Dan Patch established
| a new worlds wagon record of 1:57A
4 to succeed his former worlds mark of
| 1891. Prince Alert's half-mile record
| of :571a was lowered by Dan Patch to
! :56 fiat. Darrell set new figures for
/ pacing queens to shoot at by circling
| the mile course in 2:00A, lowering
Fanny billiards. previous time by over
| three seconds. Major Delmar created
| new worlds trotting mile for geld
/ ings and established himself as the
| third trotter to get under two minutes
| by turning a mile in 1:59%. c. X. G..
| Billings drove The Monk and Equity to
| new worlds record for trotters hitch
! ed to pole in 2:09A, which was more
/ than two seconds faster than the pre-
| vious mark, and he has lowered that
mark to 2:08.