The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-11-21
HORSES SET NEW
WORLDS RECORD
TWENTY-FOUR MARKS SHAT.
p TERED By TRoTTERs AND
PAGERS DURING 1908.
MINOR HEIR AND UHLAN STAR
Formers Mile in t:5eE Establishes
New Record for Green Pacing Stall
iion-WonderfuI and Sensational
Runs by The Eel, Leading Lady,
Hamburg Belle and Other Horses.

Runs by The Eel, Leading Lady,
Hamburg Belle and Other Horses.
Coming right after such record
breaking campaign as was expert
enced in 1907, another year of sensa.
tional performances has just closed,
or practically so, and statisticians are
knee deep in work figuring up the
great season performances and new
worlds records that were established
since last July by the time annihilat-
ing trotters and PAGERS.
No less than "a new worlds records
were shattered during the last sea-
son, while some splendid season per-
formances were given that almost
equaled worlds records. The feats
performed by feet trotters and PAGERS
were SO many and of such a sensation
al nature that it is diff to select
which is the greatest. The record
taken by The Leading Lady in a trial
against time at Lexington of 2:07,
which establishes new record for
three-year-old trotting FLIES, is of
course remarkable performance, but
1t can not compare with some of the
other splendid exhibitions of speed
and courage displayed by the other
equines whose names will be inscribed
in the hall of fame of the horse world
Perhaps the performance of the two
pacing wonders, Minor Heir and The
Eel, were as great as any of the
shining stunts pulled off by any cam
paigner, although it must be consid-
cred that the performances of The
Harvester (2:08A), Hamburg Belle
(2:04A), Uhlan (2:07A), Czarevena
(2:12A), and Highball (2:O3A), are
all record-breaking ones, and any of
them would stand out very prominent
| ly If it were the only exceptional
performance of the year.
So much attention is now paid to
breeding that faster horses are bound
to grace the turf, and next year it is
expected that another collection of
speed merchants will appear that. al
though they may not eclipse the marks
established this season, they will prob
ably lower number of the present
| records.
The Leading Lady's record of 2:07
lowers the record for three-year-old
fillies, that has stood for Is years. 1t
was made by Fantasy in 1893 and
was 2:OS%. The performance of Uh-
Ian, when he trotted a mile in 2:O7A
at Columbus, broke the worlds record
OF 2:0S, held jointly by John Nolan
made Elm 1898, and Boralma made in
1906.
| Fleming Boys record of 2:07% sur
passed Kinney Louis record of 2:O7%
for the fastest heat ever trotted by a
green stallion, while Highball shat
tered the record of 2:041s for the fast
est heat ever trotted by a gelding,
which was held by Tiverton and Went
worth, by Keeling off mile at Peoria
in 2:03&. The mile in 2:07A, trotted
by the Inflated mare, Alceste, in the
M. and NJ. race at Detroit, in the fifth
heat, established new record for
trotters for similar heat.
BY trotting third heat in 2:O4A
Hamburg Belle lowered the former
record of 2:05 held by Sweet Marie.
while at Tere Haute Jack Leyburn es-
tablished a new record for the three
fastest heats for trotters Of either
sex by Keeling off three heats in
2:O7A, 2:06 and 2:04M. This lowered
Alix's mark made in 1894, also that
made by w. J. Lewis in 1906. Jack
Leyburn also lowered The Monks
record of 2:05A and 2:06A made in
1902 for the two fastest heats ever
trotted by gelding He trotted two
heats at Detroit in 2:051a and 2:O4H
Minor Heir established new record
for a green pacing stallion by pacing
a mile in l: 1914, while he also equaled
Star Pointers race record of 2:001a
made in 1897. The Dean stallion also
lowered Bolivar's record of 2:O0%
for a first heat. Citation equaled the
worlds record for the fastest heat by
a pacing mare in a race, held by Ec-
static at 2:01A. Jerry B equaled the
worlds record for sixth heat by a
PAGER, held by Planet at 2:0GA, while
he also holds the record for the fastest
seventh heat ever paced. At Lexing-
ton Jerry B paced mile in the sew
enth heat in 2:07A, beating the record
held by Baron Grattan made in 1904
and King Direct made in 1904 of
2:O7A.
Gilbert to Manage Cardinals.
Billy Gilbert, who played part of
the past season at second base for the
Cardinals, will succeed John J. Nc
Closkey as manager of the st. Louis