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Frou Frou, the best yearling, is a bay filly foaled 1890, got by Sid- 

 ney, a trotting bred pacer, out of Flirt by Buccaneer. Her record of 

 2:25^ was made on the Stockton, California, kite, November 28, 1891. 

 She was hooked to an old-style sulky, and driven by Millard Saunders. 



It will be remembered that in 1888 the yearling record was held by 

 Norlaine, 2:31^. Since that time Norlaine's mantle has successively 

 fallen on Freedom, a bay colt by Sable Wilkes, who made a yearling 

 record of 2:29^, October 18, 1890; Bell Bird, a brown filly by Elec- 

 tioneer, who made a yearling record of 2:26^, October 21, 1891 ; and 

 on Frou Frou, where it now so gracefully rests. 



Arion, the best two-year-old, is a bay colt, foaled 1889, got by Elec- 

 tioneer out of Manette by Nutwood. His record of 2:10^ was made 

 on the Stockton kite, November 10, 1891. He was driven by Charles 

 Marvin to an old-style sulky, and the performance may be justly con- 

 sidered the most remarkable record for age ever made. Arion was bred 

 by Senator Stanford, at Palo Alto, California, and by him sold to Mr. 

 Forbes, of Boston, Massachusetts, at the reported figure $125,000. The 

 2:10^4 of Arion, by the way, is the seventh fastest stallion record of the 

 world, an honor which he divides with Lobasco, who made an equal 

 record during the fall of 1892. In his three-year-old form, Arion, at 

 Nashville, Tennessee, November 12, 1892, reduced his two-year-old 

 record to 2:10^ equaling the three-year-old record of Sunol, and plac- 

 ing him sixth on the stallion list but there are so many good ones in 

 the field that it would be pure conjecture to attempt to name the winn- 

 ing four-year-old of 1893. 



Sunol, in her three-year-old form, easily reduced the three-year-old 

 record of Sable Wilkes, by trotting the regulation track at San Fran- 

 cisco, California, on November 9, 1889, in 2:10^. She pulled an old- 

 style sulky, with Marvin up. The fight between Sunol and Axtell for 

 the three-year-old championship in 1889 is a notable companion piece 

 to the struggles of Stamboul and Kremlin this year for the stallion 

 crown. Axtell began the fight August 25, 1889, when he trotted in 

 2:14 at Chicago, Illinois. Sunol followed October 2, by trotting in 

 2:13^, at Fresno, California. On October u, 1889, Williams drove 

 Axtell to his present record, 2:12, at Terre Haute, Indiana; and the 

 Iowa colt was thought to be secure in his well earned laurels. His vie- 

 tory, however, was short lived, as Marvin was able to drive the Cali- 

 fornia filly a mile in 2:10^, at San Francisco, November gth, following, 

 and leave her in possession of the three-year-old record, which she 

 still holds, but jointly with Arion since November 12, 1892. 



Moquette, the best four-year-old, is a bay horse, foaled in 1888, got 

 by Wilton, 2:19^, out of Betsy and I, by Ericsson. His record of 2:10 

 was made on the regulation track at Richmond, Ind., September 16, 

 1892. He was hooked to a bicycle sulky, and driven by Mike Bowerman. 



