Show I A GREAT CONTEST I It i ia understood that Jerome Case the I owner of the horse Phallus and Mr I I Cohen field the owner of the horse Maxey Cobb are in correspondence with I each other endeavoring to come to an understanding un-derstanding about a race between these I two greatest of trotting horses Both horses on the sires side trace back in the same lines to Hambletonian 10 Phallus is i by Dictator the sire of Jay EyeSee a son of old Hambletonian while Maxev Cobb is by Happy Medium also by old Ham hletonian The dam of Dictator was Clara and the dam of Happy Medium was the famous California Cali-fornia ten miler Princess Old California Cali-fornia sportsmen will remember her as I she was famous throughout the West I twenty years ago For many years it was a popular and almost univeisel theory among horsemen that stallions could not make remaik ably fast time but this idea no longer obtains ob-tains as the performances of the two horses above named clearly show If the race now being arranged for shall come off on the 4th of July it will doubtless doubt-less be among the most famous and exciting ex-citing ones that the American trotting turf has ever witnessed although it is more than prabable that no trotting horse will ever create the same sensation that Flora Temple did when she beat the record at Kalamazoo in 1858 Today To-day her time is good but does not approach that of Maud S JayEyeSee Hams Phallas Trinkett Maxcy Cobb Phil Thompson and others What she did it was at that time thought could not be done There are anly two other horses in America or the world that could be matched against each other that would create the same interest as a race between the two stallions stal-lions above named and those two horses are Maud S and JayEye See Americans Ameri-cans are as fond of their trotting horses and races as Englishmen are of their thoroughbreds and running races and the coming race will be national in its interest I |