4 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



capacity of the two horses is not accurately known. 

 In 1834 Edwin Forrest, a black gelding, trotted a 

 mile under saddle in 2.31^, and in the same year 

 a bay mare called Sally Miller trotted a mile in 

 harness in 2.37. The Lady Suffolk era began in 

 1845, when she trotted in harness in 2.29^. The 

 same year Moscow, a bay gelding of unknown 

 blood, trotted in 2.30. In 1849 Lady Sutton, by 

 Morgan Eagle, trotted in 2.30, and Pelham, a 

 bay gelding of untraced breeding, trotted in 2.28. 

 In the appended table I give championship 

 records, designating those made with wind or dirt 

 shield with the letter s, and those made on kite 

 tracks with the letter k : 



One mile, Lou Dillon, chestnut mare, 1903 . . 1.58^-1 

 Two miles, Robert McGregor, chestnut horse, 1902 4.17 



Three miles, Nightingale, chestnut mare, 1893 . 6.55^ 



Four miles, Senator L., chestnut horse, 1893 . . 10.12 



Five miles, Zambra, brown gelding, 1902 . . 12.24 



Ten miles, John Stewart, bay gelding, 1867 . . 28.02^ 



Thirty miles, General Taylor, gray horse, 1857 . 1.47.59 



One hundred miles, Conqueror, bay gelding, 1853 . 8.55.05 



Twenty, fifty, and one hundred mile perform- 

 ances are no longer in vogue. They served no 

 good purpose, and the Society for the Prevention 

 of Cruelty to Animals interfered. 



