The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-24
JESS
WOODS
EDITS
RECORD MILES--MAJOR
DELMAR AND DAN PATCH

The trotting and pacing meeting al
tober 81, was expected to be productive
| of very high class sport, but the most
| sanguine follower of the trotting turf
| did not expect that so many success
full onslaughts on records would result.
| After Major Delmar's victory over Lou
| Dillon In the race for the Gold Chal-
| Smathers trotter was at the head of
| the trottlng list of 1904. AS though to
clinch this title, the trotting king was
sent to establish a new worlds record,
beating, if possible, his own figures of
2.01 ga made early in October, at Lex
ington. Accordingly, on Monday, Oc-
tober "a, Major Delmar. driven by Alta
p Macdonald, was sent out to make
phis Trotting Association. There was
no runner or wind shield to aid the
Smathers horse when the gallant son
of Delmar made his record in the most
convincing fashion Many of those
200 ga or 200 IL, but none had it as
slow as 2.01 Ia, the time hung out by
the official timers, which stands as the
record. This was one-half second fast
er than his previous performance at
Lexington. The first quarter was COW
cred in 81, the half in LOO ga, the
quarters in 100 IA, which speed
was maintained to the end when the
new worlds figures were hung out.
On the same day Dan Patch went the
mile in 200 IA, finishing easily within
himself These performances were fore
runners of what the two horses were
to do on the following Wednesday.
On the latter day Dan Patch, with
a pacenaker in front carrying wind
shield and accompanied by runner at
the side, paced the fastest mile ever
made by a horse in harness, circling
the Memphis track in 1.56, which is
IA of a second better than this same
horse did in 1902 The son of Joe
Patchen started on his journey after
scoring once and stepped the mile with
the precision of clock-work, covering
the first quarter in % seconds. the half
in 81 1-2. and passing the three-quar
ter pole in 1.26 1-2.
On TINS DAY mayor OeHndF duQeQ |
other laurels to those he had already |
won at Memphis, by trotting a mile |
to a high-wheeIed sulky in 2:07 fiat |
The sull1y was mountaineering vehi-
Gle and weighed 541a pounds being of /
exactly the same pattern as that used |
by Maud S. when she trotted her mile |
in 2:0S% in 1885. Thus the record that |
stood for nineteen years was at last |
destroyed by the trotting champion of |
1904. Alta Macdonald guided the |
Major whose time for the quarter was |
.301a, the half 1.023z the quarters |
134 1t was a remarkable and decisive
and was a fit ending to |
the attempts at the trotting and pac-
ing records that have made the re-
markable end of the season of 1904
Tt is a popularity of the trotting stu
alton that the two new records made by !
Major Delmar. paradoxical though they |
may seem, will not be credited to him.
This is due to the ruling of the National |
Trotting Associations Board of Review
decision of last winter to the effect that |
a horses best mile constitutes the only
official record it can be credited with.
AS Major Delmar's 1.59$4, made last |
season. is his record mile. neither the |
2.O1A mile nor the 2.07 to old style of |
suIky, will be regarded by the high turf /
tribunal as records, although they are !
both really records in the public mind, |
and in fact having been trotted with !
out a pacemaker in front or d wind !