| Show I WORlDS WORlD'S RECORDS ARE FREELY MADE BUT MARK STill STANDS Year Old Trotting Stallions Fail to LOW Lower 4 1 1 Time of Great California Californi a Horse Made Nineteen Nineteen Nineteen Nine Nine- teen Ye Years ars Ago S S LOU DILLON AND MINOR HEIR SET HIGH MARKS j Horsemen Have Centered Their Attacks at Yearling and Year Three-Year-Old Records of Recent Years S Lowed Lowering ng Both iW dY GUY T. T ROCKWELL Nineteen years earR ago ogo oV over r tho the Tenn Tena track the gr great greatS at S California bred horse trotted a mile in 2061 2051 the fastest 1 ever e trotted by a a. year 4 This l performance created a 0 furore In light harness circles and and I II fl horsemen set out to reduce educe the tho mark ear after oCter year precocious 4 year trotters appeared and owners and trainers trainer thought thoua-ht they thoy had mark I at ot their merc mercy but tho tIme r record cord still stands It Is tho the most deceiving deceiving- target horsemen have to shoot at I Until two years ago go Directum's record stood as the tho fastest year old mat mark regardless diess of or sex Joan was the first to relieve tho the old champion of ot somo some of A AMs his Ms prestige when who she trotted In lu 2043 2044 tho fast fastest tIt over ever trotted by a 4 year ear earold old filly fill No gelding has ever over approached Directum's 4 old mark th the th 51 I beet being a mIlo In 2071 by Uhlan A peculiar circumstance of Joans Joan's feat J S Is that she aha hA Is a 0 granddaughter of ot i iI I Dave Davo Halle and und Gay Gny Audubon have hn come the nearest to Directum's stallion S mark In recent years but the th best beat either cither of or these trotters could do was a n mile mil mile In Perhaps hn had 1 not an Injury thrown Anvil out of ot training two years yearn ago ho he might h have ha vo como come close to mark marlc l' l Frank G G. Jones lonca who bred and owns Anvil Auvil was wa-s greatly r disappointed when his horse went lame because ho Ito lund hall tho the ear 1 record in view I Marks Which Will Wear Like Iron l lI I While mark has weathered moro more attacks than thon an army any other record I I held b by a harness horse the tho marks established b by Lou Dillon and Minor Heir will lute likely wear like Iron Lou Dillon In 1903 1901 trotted In l' l 16 fl and by toy so go dol doln doing negotiated tho the fn fastest trotted up to that time and Bud which still stands as as' as the tho best bent performance by my a R. marc Minor lInor Heir Hell paced In hl his hla first t Benson out which gives him tho the distinction of being tho the first lt hor horse 0 to pace paco a r mile I below helow two minutes H whom when In tho the green class S An old record which had stood th the tho teat for Cor eighteen years was ivas broken I this season b by tho the Colorado pacer den Braden Direct With this lowered It 1 left lan mark standing alono alone Braden Direct shattered record ot of otO 20 O at North Randall b by pacing In 2032 03 while later he paced In 2 02 r lowered a n. record that had stood tood since 1397 whon when In the NI sixth th h hof heat of or f the Kentucky Kentuck futurity ho lit trott trotted trotti-d d In OH This lowered th the the- rec record n for Cor a at sixth heat t regardless of or n ago age p. p of h lucid held ld b by Countess Eve e Two years ag Joan trotted to a a. 4 year old old r record o of 2042 and that thai was tho time fastest r. r filly of or l that n age o had trotted sine since I Fantasy stepped In OG in l 1890 1896 The Tho Bar trotted in In 19 1910 O. O and amid b by so 50 doing he reduced the record of or o mn made e b by b Cresceus In l 1001 Ol Two Other Broken Records Frank Prank Perry smashed a n. long hong standing record we for yearling pacers het held by I Paul Kelley and anel Belle Acton at 20 when two years a ago o lie he pac paced d a a. mile In tn Impetuous Palmer this season clipped cUpped a quarter of or a n second from the tho record held hold b by for years ears and tied tU-d by Jim Logan three fl seasons ago Tho yearling record has been tho the popular target for trainers to cm coach their young oun archers for and BH nM a 0 result rosult the record In both divisions has suffered Miss Stokes led the tIme attack on th the tho y yearling mark marl h by trotting In 2191 In imi 1905 Then camo came Wilbur Lou and this year ear dropped the time limn down to to- Frank Frnnk Perr Perry clipped 5 53 s seconds from the yearling pacing mark marJ when he ilC was ns pointed for Cor or tho performance Several Se fleet 3 3 olds r c have havo appeared since Gen General ral Watts and Kentucky To Todd d started to lower Jover the record In 1907 The TIle mark then was placed at t but Colorado lIo E B now holds It and it Is two tO seconds faster Peter Peler Thompson last season greatly r reduced the tho record for year old geldings geldings geld geld- ings of Dr 1 H. H This time was made madl h by Peter Stirling In 1901 til but Peter Thompson Thomp Thomp- son reduced It I two or tm times s and finally left It at 2 07 2 1 Many other records have O been heen broken and r broken r-broken brol en in the last two or 01 three years Nineteen n new records wore were hung up In 1912 The Tho big birr question queston In th the tot stand minds of or the tho statisticians I Is Is How ITow long will wl the record of or Oi t |
