Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-13
ALLEN WINTER
ROYALTY BRED
GRAND SIRE SPEED MARVEL IN
HIS DAY
SET EUROPEAN RECORD THAT
STOOD FOR YEARS
Winner of American Trotting Derby,
the Richest Harness Event Ever
Held, Traces Back to the
Great Que Allen
BY DAN PATCH


Allen Winter is a brown stallion,
sixteen hands high and years old.
He has no marks, except white heels
behind. He is son OF Ed Winter,
2:12h, as a 4-year-old, by Jay Bird,
the sire of Allerton, 2:09H, Jay Nc
Gregor, 2:07A. His dam, Miss Que,
was by Que Allen, 2O9%. he by Cham
pion Medium, 2:22A, by Happy Me-
dium Que Allen was taken to Aus
tria in 1897 and in 1898 lowered the
European trotting record to 2;10h and
later won the championship of Europe,
which ne won again in the following
year, when he lowered the record to
2:08 rs, which remained the European
record till this season, when Silico
shaded 1t just one-tenth Of a second.
He is described by Volunteer" in
Clark's Horse Review, as follows:
"Allen Winter stands full sixteen
hands tall and is one of the most richly
colored horses alive. He might be de-
scribed as either a brown or a bay,
for his satin-like coat shades to either
hue, while throughout it has a glor-
ious, molten bronze tone, full of sheen
and iridescence His name and tail
are Jet black, as are his points, and
he has no white markings except upon
his hind heels. He is what one inVol-
UNFAIRLY denominates a grand-looking
horse, rather than a strillingly hand
some one. His head is rather large
and in shape is strongly masculine
the muzzle being somewhat heavy, but
the cranial development is remarkable,
making Alonzo McDonald's praise of
his rare mental balance and faultless
disposition Che pronounces him the
best-tempered and most manageable
trotter ever In his hands, easily cred
ible.
His eye is clear, bright and kind
and his ear small for so large a horse,
finely shaped and well carried His
neck is not long nor particularly ele-
giant, but promises a handsome crest
at maturity and 1t sinks into a Shout
der and breast that are magnificent
/ have never seen a trotting stallion
that excelled him there, and few his
equals. His breast Is both very broad
and very deep, denoting immense
power, and his shoulder Is superb in
its sweep and slope, being long, beau
tifully lila, with withers running far
back and swathed and bossed with
mighty muscles which play supplely
beneath their bronze coat. Few trotA
ters, even of sixteen hands, have such
lung capacity and heart room.
ALLEN Winter is long bodied horse,
but his barrel, from girth to waist,
inclusive, without being at all gross,
is extraordinarily full, round and deep.
Just In front of his coupling he has
that slight depression that many critics
of conformation consider the Indian
sign" but 1t is not sufficient to make
him rough there. His hip and quarter
are broad, round and massive, the
stifie and gaskin swell with muscle,
and his reach from point of hip to
point of hook is striking. His limbs
are excellent. Though tall horse, he
a IQOoU in 20
verse of that. While not of the futed
thoroughbred stamp, his legs are clean
and well shaped, with unusually heavy
bone, tremendous forearm and O. hook
in especial that is beyond criticism.
The pasterns are of more than or
binary length and flexibility The feet
are rather large, but of good shape
and, like the limbs above them; are
absolutely sound and without blemish.
I'm harness Allen Winters attrac-
tiveness Increases He is up-headed
and commanding in carriage and in
every motion betrays both a power
and an agility that are rarely seen in
His Early Life
After being harnessed forty-six
times in his two-year-old form, Charley
Chambers drove Allen Winter an eighth
in 1515 seconds. The following year
and the greater part of 1906 Allen spent
In his stall. receiving only slow jog
work and not much of that.
Last year Mart Wilson, who made
May Allen 2:09 IA, John Taylor 2:0S Ia
and number of other fast trotters
for Mr.. Reardon, took Allen in hand
and in the fall drove him a mile in
apolis track. He was sent to Lon Nc
Donald at his winter training grounds
In Selma, Ala. in January and was
trained by Lon as. previously described.
Allen Winter is one of the plainest
rugged trotters on the turf, wearing no
boots whatever in front and only light
felt speedy-cut and coronet boots be-
hind. His front shoes weight TX ounces
and are calked at the heels, straight
wise, with small grab at the toe, the
calk being on the inside web of the |
shoe. He also wears 2-ounce toe
weights. Behind he has swedged shoes |
of four-ounce weight His harness is |
of the two-minute variety. and his
bride fitted with blinds and overcheck. |
How He Was Trained
Lon Mcdonald described the way he |
trained him for the American Trotting |
Derby as follows:
st trained Allen Winter upon an en- |
tirely new plan," explained Lon Nc |
Donald. First of all, scored him |
often from every point of the track, ex-
cepting the home stretch. My object in |
this was to enable him to get away fast |
and not learn the habit of doing so
from the ordinary scoring point. |
never finished a mile at the wire, and, |
rs a consequence, unlike most horses,
he has no idea of where the wire is. |
The average horse gets wise to the fin
shing station, simply because he is
always pulled up after passing the
stand. Nine out of ten trotters signal
with their ears when they strike the |
nome stretch, thereby giving notice
hat they know where the wire Is.
81 diversified Aliens work, never re-
beating him two heats alike of the same
distance in one workout. Sometimes 1
would drive him mile and then give
aim a two-mole or a mile-and-a-half |
neat. In order to keep him from los
ng his speed through this process I
brushed him a lot of fast eighths and
quarters. 1 know that some of the
rainers do not believe the statement
when / say that the fastest mile Allen
las had this season, previous to one
n 2:12 IA last week at Poughkeepsie,
vas one in 2:13. 1t is, nevertheless,
rue.
"In all my experience with trotters
have never met with one of Allen
Uinfar,s narfaotion of dfspoeifiOD lie