Show Trotting in Two Minutes Professor William II Brewer of Yale College has made the evolution of the American trotting horse the subject of much careful research and study During Dur-ing the past decade ho said to a reporter report-er yesterday the records have been steadily lowered and Mr Bonner is authority for the statement that he expects Maud S will surpass her time of a day or two ago before the summer closes It is my firm opinion based on many years of deep study of the evolution of the trotting horse that before another generation passes we shall hear of trotting horses that can make a mile under two minutes Horses are bred nowadays for the single purpose of bringing out their trotting qualities just as in England they are bred solely with reference to running Now if a lot of thoroughbred horses are bred within themselves without admitting admit-ting any mongrel blood and if they are trained solely for trotting there is no question that man can bring the record down to two minutes and under Mr Robert Bonner who owns Maud S ridicules ridi-cules such an idea and ho may think this an impossible result I am aware as he says that trotting is an acquired gait for a horse and that running is his natural gait But still my theory holds and if the thoroughbred trotter is carried through one generation after another we shall one day see a horse which can trot in two minutesNew Haven News |