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Show Paws Trotter Steps Mile in 2:07- Major Delmar sn Not Show-ing Show-ing Up Nearly So Well. Is Backward in Training, and Won't Be Right for Some Timr Yet. LOU DILLON, who has now been at the Cleveland track for two or three weeks, gave the rail birds there a nutter by making a mile in 2:07'4 last Tuesday, says the Record -Herald. It Is said that Millard Sanders San-ders did not expect to let her step quite so fast, but she was anxious, and so he gave her her head part of the way. The third quarter she was trotted at a two-mlnutc gait thirty seconds and the last half In l.OUi, the mare being taken back and under restraint coming com-ing home. Those who saw her say unhesitatingly un-hesitatingly that she will be a greater mare this year than ever. Her whilom rival. Major Delmar (1:59), is at present far behind her In point of condition. He was wintered win-tered by his trainer, Alta McDonald, at Albany, N. Y where winter lingered long In the lap of spring this year. At last accounts the Major was doing quarters around a 2.10 gait only. He is, however, reported In the most robust ro-bust health, vlth his legs as clean as a colt's. The plans for Major Delmar this year are said to be quite different from thoso of lasL In 10u3 he was subjected to a grueling1 that would have put anything but an iron horse out of commission. From the time he developed record-breaking record-breaking speed, in August, for a period pe-riod of over two months fast miles and frequent shipments were "socked to him" week after week in a way that seemed almost merciless to many onlookers. on-lookers. The strain of miles In or close to two minutes Is immense, and when a horse is asked for them week after week, sometimes for several in a week, with fatiguing Journeys by rail Intervening, only an extraordinary one can emerge from the ordeal unscathed. Delmar Is an Iron Horse. Major Delmar showed himself made of the sternest stuff, but that he lost form is almost certain. Neither before nor after his race against Lou Dillon for the Memphis gold cup was he considered con-sidered to have a chance to beat her. But it is the present belief that he would have made the contest a much less ono-slded one had he not been asked for so much before it. His performance per-formance to the eye gavo every Indication Indi-cation of being that of an overdone horse. So far as the race was concerned, he was beaten before the first quarter-mllo quarter-mllo of the first heat was trotted, and at the end of both heats he labored and floundered like a ship without a rudder. The winner's time was only 2:01, and he did not trot either mile as good as 2:0C. In consequence, when he came out a week later and trotted a mile against time In 1:59, it was an astonishing aston-ishing demonstration of recuperative power. Lou Dillon's performances at Memphis were so overshadowing that this mile passed wlih comparatively few encomiums. But It made a particularly par-ticularly deep impression on the writer for the reason given, and raised Major Delmar much higher than ever before In my esteem. Last season Mr. Smathers did not acquire ac-quire possession of the Major until well into the fall, and he then had a number num-ber of contracts for engagements ahead of him. But fpr this the bay gelding would hardly have been so severely taxed. It la said authoritatively that this season the sole object of Mr Smathers is to have Delmar prepared for the fastest mile possible and for the best possible showing at Memphis, where another attempt to beat Lou Dillon Dil-lon In the cup race will be made. The first public appearance of the Major will be made at the Kenllworth track, Buffalo, at the Grand Circuit meeting, the first week in August, on which occasion oc-casion Mr. Smathers will drive him to beat his wagon record of 2:03, made at Lexington la?t October. No Wind Shield This Year. In none of Major Delmar's Tecord-breaklng Tecord-breaklng attempts this season will a wind-shield, a dirt-shield or a pacemaker pace-maker in front be used. As in the case of Lou Dillon, they will bo dispensed with, and the antique pacemaker at the side will be used this in deference to the "knocking" which last year's performances received from the moss-backs moss-backs and fossils of 1S12. Aside from the gold cup race at Memphis, there is a possibility that we may see a meeting between Dillon and Delmar before then. There Is a strong amateur club at Syracuse, N. Y,. and amateur racing has always figured prominently on the programmes of the big harness meetings given there in connection with the New York State fair. Both Mr. Billings and Mr. Smathers Smath-ers have driven their horses there, and the relations between them and Sena- -'tT1 IJjjr 5e tor Horace "U'hlte. the head of th c, :ji racuse organization, arc very frWw 3 Some time ago the Syracuse clubt T nounced that It would give a gdw !& for a free-for-all amateur race attv.- ?Et State fair next September, provide tfi 3 Dillon and Major Delmar would suit 1 V while It was hoped that John A . Kcrron might also be brought to tiv post. Mr. Billings has stated that h to will start his mare if Mr. SmatW. $ starts Delmar. The latter eentlE vl' Is pretty apt to do this. So Syraco. i & may secure an ultra-sensational ct-I ( ? tcsL The State fair meeting Is hdiii I"-? mid-September and the Syracme track C is one of the fastest In the countr;. ' T |