Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-19
HIGH-WHEELED sULkiEs. Racers Did Not Discard Them Until
 After 1892.

Inasmuch as the high-whee1ed sulky
 was not generally discarded until af-
 ter the racing season of 1892 had been
 far advanced, the 20 years of the bike
 sulky on the trotting and pacing turf
 was not up until the close of 1912;
 hence the records of both 1891 and 1912
 must be included in covering the inn
 provements that have been made in
 the last two decades on the turf. It
 is not with the purpose of showing
 what the big bike has accomplished
 in it's 20 years history that compar-
 isons are made of worlds records as with the records of today, for what the
 bike did in the way of accelerating speed became apparent in the year inn
 medAately following it's introduction. made to prove the wonderful improve ment in the breed. says an exchange. Robert Bonner. who owned Maud s.. naturally figured the bike unreason- ably fast but unprejudiced men-fn- deed, the leading reinsmen who exper- imented with sulkies before reaching an opinion-placed the difference at from two to three seconds.
 Granting that the difference be three seconds, the records of today (not new, but nearly every ene) show an improvement of from six to eight sec onds in some eases more. and this can be placed to the improvement in the breeding of our tFetters and pacers over those that were the record hold CTS of 1892. There's a difference of 10 34 seconds between the records of UhIan and Maud s.; the stallion record is 34 seconds faster, the record for mares S4 seconds; the record for ge1dings 12 seconds, the yearling record 3-4 seconds, the three Year-old record IA seconds, and the four-year=old record 5 3-4 seconds.
 Among the race records there Is an of 10 3-4 seconds in the time for the best mile in contest 9 of 10 seconds for the best racing heat by stallions, and Cling stones much heralded best race rec ord for a gelding, 2.14, has been beat en Il 1-2 seconds by Uhlan, and can be still further reduced. The one rec
 in fact, was undisturbed from 1891 until 1909-is the mark for two year old trotters of 2.10 3-4, made by Arion to high-wheeled sulky. When the son of Electioneer established it on the kite track at Stockton, horSemen were united in the opinion that Arion's 40 3-4 at two years of age was far more marvellous than the 2.08 3-4 of Maud 8. at maturity, and as the years have passed on since that record was made they marvel more over the re- markable speed of this colt and won der where he would have wound up as a trOtter at maturity had fortune come to him as 1t came to Uhlan, The Harvester and other champions when they left colthood form
 Arion was truly the horse of the century and even today we look upon such bige trotting tWo-year-o -oIds as fagowan, 2.1e 3-4. Lord Allen, All 1-4 md Dillon Axworfhy, All, as great wo-year- olds, and they are, but as nothing to what Arion was, for he was 70 years ahead of his time. The trot- m particular that should furnish clear evidence of the Improvement in the breed of horses. for it takes horse of good blood and consequent stamina to carry a record-breaking clip over distance of ground. Fanny Wither- spoon, 2.18 1-4, was generally .consid- cred the best fitted trotter of the high wheel days over a distance of ground