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Bonner's Great Stables in December 1879. 



We here give a reliable list of the great editor's fast horses by all 

 odds the greatest collection of fast trotters that the world has ever 

 known. There are now in his stable, West Fifty-fifth street, near 

 Fifth avenue, ten horses, every one of which, with a single exception, 

 has trotted in 2.20, or better. The exception is Mamie B, by Edward 

 Everett, dam St. Lawrence Maid. She is a diminutive specimen of 

 horseflesh, standing about 14.1. Edwin Forrest towers above the lit- 

 tle mare. He is a fraction over 16 hands. He is seven years old, and 

 was got by a son of Joe Downing, the son of Alexander's Edwin Forrest; 

 his dam was a high-bred mare, said to be a granddaughter of the great 

 Leviathan At Hartford, Forrest trotted an exhibition mile hi 2:14 1-2, 

 and in the repeat went to the half-mile pole hi 1 :05 1-4, where no 

 other horse has yet gone in a race. Dexter, by Rysdyk's Hamble- 

 tonian, dam by American Star, is twenty years old. He attracts, if 

 possible, more attention in Mr. Bonner's stable than Edwin Forrest. 

 He was the first horse to trot in 2-17 1-4, his present record. In his 

 race against Ethan Allen and running mate he was timed a mile in 

 2:16. At Prospect Park, Mr. Bonner drove Dexter to road wagon, 

 weight 319 Ibs., a mile in 2:21 3-4, a performance which has never 

 been equaled. Music is a very bloodlike-looking mare, a chestnut, 

 standing full 16 hands. She is eleven years old, and was got by Mid- 

 dletown, by Rysdyk's Harnbletonian, dam by Roe's Fiddler, a grand- 

 son of Monmouth Eclipse. She is an excellent double-harness per- 

 lormer. and is hard to beat single. John Taylor, 9 years old, and 

 pedigree not established, is as fine in all his points as a thoroughbred. 

 He gained a public record of 2:25 his first season on the turf, but has 

 trotted a mile on Mr. Bonner's three-quarter track in 2:18 3-4. Startle, 

 bred at Stony Ford, 11 years old, and by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, 

 dam by American Star, is the biggest horse for his inches in the coun- 

 try. He is 15.1, under the standard. Startle trotted half a mile in 

 1:041-2, in harness, and pulled a road- wagon at Fleetwood a quarter 

 in 32 1-2 seconds a 2:10 gait. The stallion was then put into the 

 stud, and his three-year-old colts are quite promising. Molsey, a bay 

 mare, by Whiteside's Black Hawk, first dam by Dallas, and second 

 dam by imp. Leviathan, is scant 15.2. She has a speedy form, and 

 obtained a record of 2:21 3-4. She has since been timed a mile on the 

 three quarter track in 2:18 1-4. Malice, 8 years old, bred at Wood- 

 burn, and by Woodford Mambrino, out of Malmaison, by Alexan- 

 der's Abdallah, the sire of Goldsmith Maid is a nervy, up-headed bay 



