Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-13 | Page 22 | Trotting Records Bettered 31 1/2 Seconds in 70 Years

TROTTING RECORDS BETTERED 31 2 SECONDS IN 70 YEARS SAN FRANCISCO June 12 An An Interesting account acc of or the of or orthe the harness hamels horse horae game gamo particularly with reference to the fashion In which new trotting records have been made for tor the past seventy years Is Incorporated In an article prepared b by r Tom Gahagan a n well welt known au authority authority authority au- au on tho the sport and read recently recent recent- ly at the dedicatory exercises by D. D O. O Lively The Tho article as RS relates to tho the creation of records follows follows- It Is Just Jaet seventy years ago that the tho old gray trotter Lady Suffolk driven by br David Bryan turned the Beacon Deacon course at Hoboken Hoboken Ho Ho- boken bokon N N. J. J In the first t trotter to tobe at beat the mark and at that time It was wan considered d a marvol marvelous us feat Perhaps It was waa When the Ule handicaps In tho the matter matter mat mat- ter of or equipment shoeing hoeing and vehicle aro are taken Into consideration tion for tor tho the outfit which gained crowd at that the plaudits of ot the time would excite only derision if It 1 paraded paraded-In the sight of ot a 1915 harness meeting audience Suffolk after atter Lady Four years yet obtained the championship crown who trotted In Pelham came carne SS in 1849 IS in 1853 Highland Maid re reduced the record to which was a equaled by Tacony the tho same aniO Flora Temple Templo was the tho next champion and she accomplished what was at that time thou thought hl the Impossible by trotting a mile mUe In 1 2 19 the tho first nt trotter to beat but the mark For eight years the famous little lit littie little lit lit- the undisputed tle tie Flora remained champion of at trotters then In the East appeared a trotter driver the former youthful and a l to become ft L worlds world's champion champlon latter Jatter o to contribute more moro than Important Important chapter to the history one ono of ot of harness racing in America The horse was Dext Dexter Dex- Dex t ter the tho driver Bud Dud and from tram that August day at Buffalo in 1867 1861 when ho he drove Dexter to the tho worlds world's record of or 2174 ti tito up lP to the tho present time Doble fable has been tho the most notable figure connected connoted con con- noted footed with the sport of or light hame harness l racing He later brought out ot the famous Goldsmith Maid and In 1874 1814 drove her hor to tho the worlds world's record of r 2 14 at Mystic MYRtic pat park nark Boston Still Actively Inthe in inthe the the harn harness h he has hL hor horses s named to race at this meeting commencing today and during the next two weeks this trainer of ot champions will bo be seen on this track matching his skill against the other star in 1878 dethroned Goldsmith Goldsmith Goldsmith Gold Gold- smith Maid l by br trotting In 2 2 13 a record which stood but littlemore little more than a year St St. Jullen driven by hy Orrin HIckok trotting trotting trotting trot trot- ting at the tho Oakland track acro across s the bay in 2 12 which he later reduced to 2114 4 Next camo came Commodore Vanderbilt's chestnut trotter Maud S. S who set let the record at nt 2011 in 1881 Jay Eye Ee See Seo trotted in 2 10 In 1884 but ho be was a king for a aday aday aday day for tor the da day following his hili performance Maud 8 S. S turned the track at Cleveland Cle In 2093 i l and later set the mark at t. For six years Maud laud S. S reigned the undisputed queen of ot harness then a California star appeared In Sunol from the thu Palo PaloAlto PaloAlto Alto stable of Senator Leland Stanford Driven by Charles Marvin sho she turned the tho kite track at nt Stockton In 2 OS Sho She was destined to be the last of or the tho champions of or the high wheel era ern for It was wn but a year later that the tho sp sport apart rt of ot harness racing was revolutionized d by tho the appearance of ot tho the bicycle sulky did more mora to increase tho speed rato rate than any other single factor In its history V It was In 1892 that the bicycle sulky made mado lt its first appearance and it waa was Dud Bud Doble Poble who drive the first champion to that hitch Driven l 1 by Doble Nancy anc Hanks Hanka trotted the Terre Terro Hauto Haute track in 2104 Two years later Alb Allx be became became be- be came camo champion champlon h by trotting a amile amile mile mUo In 2 03 In 1900 Ed Geers drove The Abbott In 03 and the tho following year car Cresceus driven en by hl his owner George Geora Ketcham Ketch- Ketch am trotted In 2 Thu Toledo To To- ledo trotter held heM the crown for two years ears but hut in lit 1003 it passed to the tho California product Lou Dillon which Sanders drove to a IL record of or tho first trotter to beat tho the two- two minute mark Three years yearn ago the tho black whirlwind Uhlan set et the mark at nt t 58 nt at the Lox x ton ington track and this record still stands as the best That the tho sport Aport of harness racIng racing rac rae ing hats has kept of the times Is lr proven Ven by the tho increase e In tho the I speed rate rato From th the tho 2 2294 29 of ot Lady Suffolk to the 1 68 o of i Uhlan shows sho an increase in the speed rate for n n. mile mite of ot 31 see sec Trotting at their respective respective tive gaits Lady Suffolk would have havo hardly passed the tho three three- era e- e ra quarter pole polo when Uhlan reached the finish which gives an idea of ot the Improvement which seventy f years have I brought brough about nearly three- three I quarters rR of oC a n c century of im improvement Im- Im I provement in the breeding of ot the tho harness horse as as as' well we'll as in the tho f training and equipment