The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16
HARNESS RECORDS
WILL BE BROKEN
Lou Dillon and John A. Mckerron Are In
Excellent Condition

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 15-The stallion
record of 2:02A, held by Cresceus. will in
all probability be lowered during the
grand circuit meeting here Oct Is to 26.
as HaIry * Devereux intends starting his
staiiion, John A. McKerron. to step a
1ast mile, and is quite confident that
his horse will trot faster than has ever
before been trotted by stallion.
Mckerron is being given a special prep
Tor this task, and is being trained by
charles Tanner, better known as Doc
to the trotting horse fraternity, and every
one connected with the horse thinks that
the stallion record will be held by this
horse before the frost is on the pump
kin" and harness racing is over in Sunny
Tennessee.
He now has record of 2:04A. but this
is by no means a limit of his speed. as
ne mas shown time and again that he has
as much brush and more stamina than
any trotting stallion, so it seems reason
able to think that over the fastest track
In the world the son of Nutwood Wilkes
will be able to turn the trick
McKerron is the horse that was the
thorn in the side of the flesh of the anna
teur drivers who were competing for the
Cleveland Challenge cup, and both E. E.
Smathers and G. K. G. Billings were con-
the measure of that horse with Lord Der
by and The Monk, but when the race was
finished it was McKerron that won and
beat his field in very fast time, and his
owner was able to keep the trophy in
Cleveland by winning this event
He is one of the best hammered and
best gated harness horses that ever wore
iron, and for the past two or three sea-
sons Mr.. Devereux has been mating his
pet with a choice lot of mares and he
promises to become as prominent in the
stud as he was on the track, as he has
sired several colts that are now in the
winning ranks, and one of the best three
year-olds OF the season came from his
loins.
At Cleveland Lou Dillon trotted the two
fastest miles of her life in a workout,
when she stepped one of them in 1902
and another in 2:03 and at the finish of
both miles she was fighting for her head
and was good and strong when the wire
was reached and did not breathe hard
enough to blow out a candle.
These two extremely fast miles show
that the queen was never in as perfect
trim as she now is and it certainly re-
fleets a great deal of credit upon Willard
Sanders, who has had her in charge ever
since she was foaled. The first and last
quarters of the first mile were trotted
in 80 seconds each, and by the time she
Is given the word here it will be mighty
hard to tell which way she has went
A horseman a few days ago said if she
was started against a cannon ball he
thinks that he would have to take a
chance on Lou, as she has shown him
more speed than anything he has even
seen.
A great many running horse owners and
trainers who had their horses wintering
at Montgomery PARK came over TO see
Lou last winter and spring and the major
ity of them were of the same opln1on-n
she was trained to run that she would be
able to step mile that would keep the
best handicap thoroughbreds in the East
quite busy to beat her. Her conforma-
ton is a great deal more like thorough
bred than a trotter, but she has never
made a break the past two years after
being turned around to step.
There is no doubt but if trained at the
galloping gait that she would be able to
run mile right close to the record, as
her dam, Lou Milton, when being. trained
at the trot, could step pretty fast clip
and one day, over a very bad track, ran
a half in :54 which shows that Lou, If
trained might be equal to setting
running record.