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measured is Stamboul. If he couldn't trot a mile in five minutes, and 

 if his blood were plebeian and common, Stamboul is a horse that would 

 rivet the gaze and challenge the admiration. He is by Sultan, 2.24, 

 out of Ruby's dam, the great mare Fleetwing, by Hambletonian, her 

 dam, Patcheu Maid, a good and fast mare individually, and one that 

 produced uniform speed, by George M. Patchen, 2.23*. Sterling 

 breeding that — and trotting blood all. Stamboul was bred by J. L. 

 Rose, of Los Angeles, Cal., and sold in 1889 to the late W. S. Hobart 

 for $50,000. 



The three-year-old stallion champion, Arion, 2.IO2, is in many 

 respects the most remarkable trotter in the world, He was bred by 

 Senator Leland Stanford at Palo Alto, and driven by Charles Marvin, 

 and electrified the turf world by trotting a mile as a two-year-old in 

 1891 in 2.101, which is perhaps the greatest performance, considering 

 all things, to the credit of any trotting horse that ever lived. He was 

 shortly afterward purchased by J. Malcolm Forbes, of Boston, for 

 $125,000, the largest price ever paid for a horse in America. This 

 season he has lowered the three year-old stallion record to 2.10J. He 

 is by Electioneer, dam by Nutwood. 



Pacing. 



The pacing champion, judged by the time measure, is Mascot, 2.04, 

 though racing men believe Flying Jib his superior. The other most 

 noted pacers of 1892 are Direct, Hal Pointer, and Jay Eye See. 



Mascot, 2 04, is by Deceive, a son of Hambletonian, out of a mare 

 of unknown breeding. For the past two seasons he has been a ])romi- 

 nent figure in the pacing contests of the AVestern turf, and, starting in 

 the slow classes at the opening of the campaign of 1891, he has gradu- 

 ally worn his record down until to-day he stands as the holder of the 

 fastest race-record ever made by a harness animal. His career began 

 at Elmira, N, Y., June 11th, 1891, in a 2.40 class, and in his first 

 start he made a record of 2.26 r, winning his race in the second, third, 

 and fourth heats. This year, commencing the campaign at the Detroit 

 meeting, he went down the line of the Western Southern circuit, win- 

 ning races and reducing his record at nearly every point. His record 

 of 2.04 was made in a race at Terra Haute, in which he Avon the first 

 heat in that time and Flying Jib the record in 2.05f . 



Flying Jib, the great California pacer, is a bay gelding by Algona, 



