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AMERICAN TROTTERS. 



Concerning this race, the American Trotter, Independence, la., issue 

 of October 6, 1892, has this to say : 



" For the second time in history the 2:05 mark has been beaten in harness, the pacer 

 Mascot putting in a heat at Terre Haute last week in the same notch that Nancy Hanks 

 touched when she trotted in 2:04. As the gelding did this in a race, starting from the 

 outside, the performance surpasses that of the Kentucky mare in point of merit, and one 

 of the quarters was a trifle faster, when Mascot stepped from the half to the third of the 

 gold-tipped posts in 29^ seconds. The effort told on him so much that he did not get an- 

 other heat of the free.for-all pace, and Flying Jib, who carried the new champion along, was 

 also defeated for the same reason. The pair went lapped to the quarter in 32^ seconds, 

 and were at the half in 1:03^, where Mascot drew away a little. The Californian closed 

 from there, and the clip became terrific. The three-quarters were covered in 1:33, or a 

 1:58 clip, and Flying Jib was at Mascot's shoulder when he finished in 2:04. The second 

 heat was also sensational, but rated differently, Flying Jib carrying Mascot to the quarter 

 in 30^ seconds, and the half in 1:00^. To come up the hill at a two-minute gait tired 

 the pair, but Jib had enough speed left to out-finish the other gelding in 2:05^. Mean- 

 while McHenry had been laying Guy up to the flag, and cutting him loose in the third heat 

 had the faster pair at his mercy. Flying Jib made the gray stallion pace the third heat in 

 2:06^, and the fourth in 2:08^. Mascot then tried to redeem himself, and was closing 

 on Guy in the last quarter of the fifth heat, when he rushed to the pole, so that Andrews 

 could not pull him out in time to overhaul the leader. Guy was under the whip, but came 

 home resolutely in 2:08^, making five heats that paralyzed all previous averages in a race, 

 the rate being 2:06^. There is little doubt if the judges had forced McHenry to drive 

 for every heat, he would have been unable to win the race." 



Mascot, whose pedigree we give in full on another page, is a bay, 

 foaled in 1885, and is now owned by W. P. Taylor, Buffalo, N. Y. We 

 present his portrait through the courtesy of Breeder's Gazette, Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



For the benefit of those who wish to know the leading blood lines 

 in the stud, we give the following list of sires in order of merit at the 

 close of 1892, kindly prepared at our request by Mr. S. S. Toman, the 

 genial editor of the American Trotter, Independence, Iowa: 



NUMBER IN 2:30 LIST. 



SIRE - Trotters. Pacers. 



ist, Electioneer 131 i 



2nd, Nutwood 82 12 



3rd, Happy Medium 80 4 



4th, Red Wilkes .69 14 



5th, Geo. Wilkes 71 7 



6th, Onward 53 n 



7th, Blue Bull 56 5 



Before leaving this chapter it may be well to explain what is meant 

 by the term "Standard Bred," as applied to trotting stock, and this we 

 do by inserting in full 



THE STANDARD OF REGISTRATION, 



as revised and adopted by the American Trotting Register Association, 

 May 19, 1891: 



" In order to define what constitutes a standard-bred horse, and to establish a breed 



