78 AMERICAN TROTTERS. 



made heavy winnings. In the first heat Clinton finished third, Lobasco 

 and Little Albert fighting neck and neck from start to finish. The 

 judges gave the heat to Lobasco in 2:11^, but the blaze face of Little 

 Albert was plainly a few inches in front of Lobasco's nose, as was after- 

 wards proved by the instantaneous photograph of the finish. In the 

 second heat, Raybould held Clinton well back until the turn into the 

 stretch, when he set sail for the leaders. McHenry, behind Lobasco, 

 and Kelly with Little Albert, were busily watching each other, and hardly 

 realized the danger that threatened until Clinton was fully abreast and 

 going at a 2:08 clip. Lobasco could not carry the speed, and Clinton 

 won by a length from Little Albert, who gamely drove the winner out 

 in 2:10^. After this heat Little Albert was never better than third. 



In the scoring for the third heat, McHenry, who had laid up the 

 stallion after his break at the stretch in the second heat, looked smil- 

 ingly confident and determined to win. Lobasco was still the favorite ; 

 but the speed which Clinton had shown in the stretch, and the really 

 easy manner in which he stepped away from Little Albert, after passing 

 the distance, found him plenty of buyers, and the mutuals showed 

 nearly even betting when the word was given. McHenry drove like a 

 demon, and to his credit be it said, Lobasco never made a gamer fight 

 against greater odds. Clinton kept the pole in spite of McHenry' s driv- 

 ing, and down the stretch the two came neck and neck. The stallion 

 was trotting a magnificent race, and his friends were never more confi- 

 dent of success. But the scene soon changed : Lobasco had done his 

 best ; Clinton had plenty to spare, and in the last fifty yards stepped 

 easily away from the stallion, winning by an open length in 2:11 flat. 

 The concluding heat was won by Clinton in slow time, Lobasco winning 

 place from Little Albert. 



Little Albert is a light chestnut gelding with blaze face, campaigned 

 by Mr. Saulisbury, of Pleasanton, California. His sire is Albert W., a 

 son of Electioneer, and his dam is a daughter of Roach's American 

 Star. His record of 2:10^ was made with a bicycle sulky, September 

 22, 1892, at Columbus, Indiana, in the third heat of a five heat race, 

 which he won. 



Guy, third on the list by record, we have already mentioned. 

 His record of 2:10^ was made with an old-style sulky, at Cleveland, 

 Ohio, August i, I88g. 



St. Julien, who was second on the list in 1888, has fallen back to 

 fourth place, and his record, 2:11^, has been beaten by so many trot- 

 ters as to seem comparatively slow. 



The present holders of the mile records for age are : One-year-old, 

 Frou Frou, 2:25^ ; two-year-old, Arion, 2:10^ ; three-year-old, Sunol, 

 2:10*4, and Arion, 2:10^; four-year-old, Moquette, 2:10; five-year-old, 

 Kremlin, 2:07^. 



