New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-28
Speed
on Trotting Turf

Only one standard record was estdD-
lslled in the trotting and pacing season
Of 1913, when Peter voio trotted one mile
In winning the Kentucky Futurity at
Lexington on October Z in 2:Nii. This
set new worlds record for a two-year-
old and smashed the old mark, OF 209l.,
held by Justice Brooke.
The light harness year, however. was
sensational, so far as speed was con-
cerned, and the proof OF this lies in the
fact that siXty-two trotters entered the
last list, which is six more than the ban
ner year of the past, 1910. In his review
of a most interesting season, A. G. Adsi
Khan, the we'll known critic, says:
when the figures are taken pertaining
20 speed average OF the new fast per-
forming trotters, they show facts that
could never have been expected in the
past The 2:lo list of 1913 is headed by
Lore Dewey, whose record of 2:03$1 is the
fastest for the headllner, with the single
exception Of Lou Dillon. which led the
list of 1903 with her windshield mark If
5Slz
The fast trotting list OF the last ten
years. or from 1904, was headed by the
following. with their records: 1872 Baden.
2s6L; 1911, Charley Mitchell. 2O4A; 1910
Colorado T.. 2:o4& 1909, Penisa Maid,
e:o4IL: 1908. Hamburg Belle. 2:o4S. 1861
Sonoma Girl. 2;o51l; 1906, Orc, 20Sh; 1885,
Admiral Dewey, 2:044.. the sire of this
Years leader, and 1901. Tiverton, 20ii2
1T shows that the record OF even the
horse standing second in line this year
Peter volo, 2:o4k. was beaten only twice
and equalled once since 1904.
AT the close Of the present season no
less than six trotters had entered the
fast circle with records of 2oS or better,
a speed showing which has never been
eoualled in turf history. They are, be-
sides Lord Dewey and Peter Volo New
zel, 2:0ol4; Tenara and Don Chenault,
each 2:05s4. and Gazetta, 2:C6.
THE new 2:l0 trotting list for 1918 con-
tsins the names OF eighteen horses that
gained records OF 2:0S or faster, which Is
again a record Of It's kind, with the ex-
ception Of last year, when total OF
twenty-five entered that list.
ITO show the general advance, the
number in other years follows: 1911. six
teen; 1910. fifteen; 1909, eleven; 1908, seven
teen; 1907, eight 1905, five.
The average record of the eighteen
trotters that entered the EOS list this year
was exactly 2:oSI5, against the average OF
a shade slower than 2:07 for twenty-five
in the same list last year.
The new 2:10 or better record OF Lord
Dewey I'm 2:o3Z was beaten only four
times during the last ten seasons, even in
the list OF former 2:lo trotters that took
faster records. or in what is called the
reduced 2:10 record list.
The great Uhlan, which set the worlds
trotting record at Los In 1912, continued
10 show wonderful speed and covered a
quarter In q seconds, new mark
Tenara, by -Moko. headed the list OF
winning trotters in 1913 with $24.14o fol-
lowed by Etawah with s31.375. Frank
Bogash, jr.. showed the way among the
PAGERS. with $202l.
T. w. Murphy headed the list OF win
ming drivers, thanks largely TO Frank
Bogash, r.. with s7l,s+5. while Walter X.
Cox was second with ss1,1o. and Ed r.
l"Pop'O Geers third with s52is3.
In many respects the fortieth Grand
Circuit was the best IN its history.