122 TRAINING THE TROTTING HjRSE. 



Bonita had now rounded to, I determined to send her 

 against it. 



This was done at the Lexington meeting October 

 11th, and the rapid httle mare beat old Father Time 

 in fine style in 2:18i, thus putting another best on-record 

 to the credit of the Electioneers. As already stated 

 our horses did not campaign in ISS-l, nor did we start 

 Bonita in 1885, though she was kept in training. In 

 the spring of 1886 she was sold to Colonel Lawrence 

 Kipp, of New York, and in due time went into the 

 hands of my friend, James Golden, of Boston, who 

 campaigned her down the Grand Circuit in the 2:19 

 class, where she encountered such good race-horses as 

 Arab, Mambrino Sparkle and Oliver K. She won at 

 Alban}-, beating Felix and Billy Button in 2:21, 2:20i, 

 2:19i, and at Hartford she defeated Charles Hilton, 

 'Charley Hogan, William Arthur and Felix in straight 

 heats in 2:22^^, 2:18^, 2:20f, thus lowering her record a 

 fraction. Later she was sold to Mr. Shults, of Park- 

 ville, and campaigned, but with no success, and as, 

 indeed, none of the Parkville horses have been very 

 successful, it may be that Bonita, a difficult mare to 

 train and manage at best, and a somewhat " sour " one, 

 did not take kindly to the training at the big Long 

 Island Farm. 



Hinda Rose was our first youngster that earned 

 fame at the early period of yearling form. She was 

 foaled February 22, 1880, and is a brown mare, by 

 Electioneer, out of Beautiful Bells, 2:29^, by The Moor, 

 the sire of Sultan. Beautiful Bells, all things consid- 

 ered, is the greatest producer of speed that ever lived. 

 Four of her get are in the 2:30 list, and two of them— 



