30 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



of the inward joy of the moment. Lou Dillon 

 went from Lexington to Memphis, where she 

 reduced the harness record, October 24, to 1.58^, 

 and the wagon record, October 28, to 2.00. She 

 is a phenomenal trotter, and her future cannot be 

 foretold. The unknown quantity in her comes 

 from the dam of Venus, dam of Sidney Dillon, 

 and Fly, dam of Lou Milton. It is fitting that 

 the champion trotter of the world should carry so 

 much of the blood of Hambletonian, the great 

 progenitor of trotters, who lived and died within 

 the shadow of Sugar Loaf Mountain. 



Major Delmar 



The second trotter to cross the two-minute line 

 in 1903 was Major Delmar, and his record of 

 i.59f is relegated by official decision to the 

 special class headed by Lou Dillon. His fastest 

 efforts are questioned because of the use of a 

 pace-maker in front with dirt-shield. Major 

 Delmar is a bay gelding, bred at Suburban Stock 

 Farm, Glens Falls, New York, by William E. 

 Spier; foaled in 1897, and as a three-year-old he 

 trotted to a record of 2.15. He was not raced as 

 a four-year-old, but having changed owners was 

 prominent as a five-year-old, trotting to a record 



