Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-27
HOW ABOUT TWO
MINUTE TROTTER2
g Far This Season Has Failed
To Produce One
Yet
RECORD OF cREScEuS 2.O2I.
s,,u stands Unbroken--AIsO That OF
p,,,r Star Pointer With Uubeaten
Mark Of rSOt

49, mat the harness raclng season
,,s nossed the middle stage without
,,,n,lng TO the front a trotter fast
o1sh 10 lower the long standing record
=, croscous, 2O2H OF q PAGER capable ol
,,,,iny out the champion mark OF l'a9Fi
,,aae nv star Pointer back in 1891 horse,
nan who we're cocksurc year ago mat
,se then new practise Of driving a run
.or In front " the harness horse ar
corded no aid to the latter arc begin
KIM 10 admit they were mistaken and TO
roal,e that the real two minute tros'er
nav NOT vet be IN sight after all.
A, mis- time last season both Lou Dill
Ian and Mal6r Del Mar trotting In tho
.oko of the runner in front had beaten
,no host time ON record, and the mare
baA reached the TWO minute goal,
Among the PAGERS Dan ftton nau
e1lnaed star Pointers record az his iirsl
s,tempt with the aid of a runner In front,
"e,cr irving repeatedly and always fall
sns under normal conditions. In the
,,hh,tb N gaptembcr Prince Alert paced
n,lle in i5t and Major Del Mar trottet
n 9O with wind shield to break the
natural resistance Of the atmosphere.
After all these performances had beeh
dlscredted by the highest tribunal OF ing
trottlng turf. the owners OF the Wlnd
shisid champlons decided 10 discard all
sptiGdai AID for their horses this year,
ga the performances Of Lou Dillon
Wsior Del Mar, Prince Alert and Dan
pstch IN 1904 have been made under
norma conditions with the .prompter'
or nacemaker In a position ar0rdlng no
assistance to the harness horse
FELL BEHIND FOUR SECONDS
Lou Dnlon's fastest public performance
thus Jar this season IL mile IN wv.
iIbls II four seconds back Of her best
Wind shield performance I'm August 1893,
and a quarter OF a second slower than
sbe troted when tried without this aid
et Brighton Beach. August ~, 1903, In
hslIce to the mare II should be said
however. that her mile In 2N this sea-
son was made on july q. At the cor.
responding period last season she had
troied In 2.03k IN the wake OF a run
ntr Shortly after trotung IN 2'W las.
July she was reported TO be Ill., and since
then she has made no serious effort ~
rreord.breaklng, hence her career In 1901
cannot az yet be fairly compared with
that OF 1870, and her performances throw
little light on her ultimate speed limit
under normal conditions. AS she " said
10 be now In fine trim again and Is being
carefully fitted for supreme effort over
the fast track at Memphis I'm October
The next six weeks will doubtless tell the
Story That she can beat the present
worlds record Of 2,02i. Is generally be-
loved even by those who think the run
nCr IN front helped her three seconds
or moro last season. But her ability
20 trot IN 200. or even IN 2;Oi. seems ex-
tyemely doubtful.
MAJOR DEL MARS RECORD.
Major Del Mar has trotted in 2:O2N on
three occasions this season, equalllng the
worlds record made by Cresceus In 1901,
but missing the Two minute mark by a
margin 500 wide that comparatively few
horsemen now expect him 10 reach II.
though he Is plainly d better horse than
he was last season. This he demon-
stTated In New York on Aug ~ trotting
i1 2o2A over the Emipre track, where
one year before 10 a day he had been
unable 10 beat 2:0i
AZ this time last season Major Del Mar
was At Syracuse and with tie aid OF a
runner In front he trotted there In 2:00i
on September II. Over the same course
few days ago he tJotted IN 2O2i4 under
normal conditions, Without making any
allowance fof Improvement In the horse,
his Syracuse performance In 1909 and 1901
woud seem TO Indicate that the runner
IN front helped him about two seconds.