22 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



Seven days after the decision Mr. W. R. Allen, 

 President of the American Trotting Register 

 Association, favored me with his views : " There 

 is no such classification in the Year Book as 

 record to high wheels. No horse holds such 

 an official record. No distinction was made 

 when the bike wheels came in, in 1892, and there 

 is no reason why there should be now. A horse 

 having a record of 2.02^ to harness cannot get 

 a record of 2.05 to harness. Maud S. has no 

 official record to high wheel. No horse has. 

 But Maud S. held the record to harness for a long 

 time, and it is well known that the performance 

 was to high wheels. Palo Alto also performed 

 to high wheels equally as fast. Sunol performed 

 to high wheels faster. That Lou Dillon can 

 pull the same sulky that Maud S. did in better 

 than 2.o8f on the Cleveland track, no one doubts. 

 Maud S.'s performance was a great one and was 

 conceded to be the best for the period, but many 

 horses have since performed greater feats than 

 she did at the trotting gait." 



In a letter to me concerning the same matter 

 Mr. R. E. Bonner says : " The decision, when 

 I consider the limited position in which the com- 

 mittee were placed, because they felt that the 



