The New York herald., 1921-01-16

dead in a race at Elmra in 1875 a life
size statue in bronze was erected TO per-
petuate her memory there.
Judge Fullertons career began in 1870
and ended in 1878. after he had won
thirty-two races. He defeated American
Girl repeatedly, but could never take
! the measure of the Maid or Rarus. The
latter horse, coming on the turf in 1874
never met American Girl, but he beat
all the Others and was sixty-three times
winner before his Long Island breeder,
II. Il. Conklin of Greenport. sold him to
Robert Bonner for a road horse in 1879,
just after he had beaten Goldsmith
Maids record Of 2.14.
Up to the close OF 1883 these four trot-
ters were the only ones that had wor
100000 or more. Whether any more
have since been added to the list is not
certainly known. the record of winnings
never having been carefully compiled
after Col Walter II. Chester published
his Complete Trotting and Pacing Rec
ord and until the now defunct Harness
Racing Guide made its appearance in
1912. The latter publication contained
a list of the leading money winning
horses each year until ii was suspended
in 1919, but an examination of these
annual lists disCloses only one trot-
ter, Peter Scott, 2 :05, whose total
$4,000 and less than twenty whose
earnings were as much as S25,000.
Peter Scott's total was S56.210. Dude
Archdale's S47.4SS, Peter volo's S44.535.
Mabel Trask's about $4,000. Sonoma
Girls $41,325 and Baden's S40.0S5. These
seem to be the only trotters OF the last
ten or fifteen years that have earned as
much as $4,000.
Big winners of OIden Times.
Longer careers and larger purses for
the fast classes enabled the old time
harness horses to earn more money than
the trotters of to-day. Flora Temple,
2:1934 the first to beat 30. for ex-
ample won S6 races and $92, 800 between
1852 and 1861. Dexter, 2:17A, the
first to lower her record. won 40 races
and $S6,500 in his four campaigns, be-
ginning in 1864. Lady Thorn. 49, +.
never but once successful against Dexter
and never beaten by the Maid, won $79,-
SIS and IL races between 1863 and 1870.
ST. Julien, 2;11A, the horse that de-
throned Rarus. won "a races and $50, 900
from 1875 to 1881. Gloster, 1T, whose
career was cut short by death in 1874,
won S54,200 and IS races in his three
campaigns. Sensation, winner of the
first purse Of $4,000 at Buffalo in 1873,
beating Gloster and Judge Fullerton,
having to take a faster record than
;22H. Lucy. 2:1SH, the friendly rival
of the Maid earned S50.950 and won 23
races between 1855 and 1873. George
Wilkes, 2 :22, the champion stallion OF
his day, won 27 races and S50,150 be-
tween 1861 and 1872.
Princess, the dam of Happy Medium,
grandsire of Peter the Great, :07A
never gained record faster than 2 80.
yet she won $49,50 of which S36,500
was the result Of one race against the
PAGER Glencoe Chief in California dur
ing the flush days of the gold diggings.
Nettie, 2:1S, owned and campaigned
nearly fifty years ago by Frank III. Ellis
of Philadelphia, who has lately owned
such fast young trotters as Brusiioff.
:0iH, and Volga, 2 :04 y, earned $46,-
500 from 1873 to 1873. Bodine, 2 :19A
coming on the turf i'm 1870, had earned
S47.970 and won twenty-seven races be-
fore he retired in 1877. Driver, 2 :19H,
another of the four geldings by Volun-
teer that piled up aggregate earnings of
100000 and more in the '70s, was
credited with $44,950 and forty-eight
winning races in seven campaigns.
Darby. :161A with thirty-three races
and $43.6S0; Thomas jefferson, 2 1923,
with twenty-seven races and $43,600; !;
Lucille Golddust, 2:16A. with sixteen
races and $4,000; st. James, 2:23 u
comparatively obscure horse, with
S42.s15; Fred Hooper. 2 :23, also little
known, with $41.225, and Charley Ford,
:16A, the only horse that ever won
heat from Maud s.. :0Sa4. with S42,-
$50. are other old time trotters that
earned $4,000 or more while on the
turf.