164 TKAmma the trotting horse. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



SUDIE D. TAKES THE YEARLING HONORS TO KENTUCKY FOR 

 A BRIEF SEASON NORLAINE, THE CHAMPION YEAR- 

 LING — HER TRAINING SHE BREAKS SUDIE D.'s REC- 

 ORD IN 2:3 1-J- — NORYAL, 2:1 7|-, her sire — sallie 



BENTON, 2:lTf, the CHAMPION FOUR - YEAR - OLD OF 



HER DAY HELEN, 2:22f SPHINX, 2:23 — BELL BOY, 



2:19|^ CHIMES AND SUISUN OTHER STARS. 



From the day that Hinda Eose made her record of 

 2:36^ in 18S1 there was no yearhng produced in 

 America to threaten that record until the season of 

 1887, and as long as it \vas not menaced we made no 

 effort to improve it. But a surprise came from Ken- 

 tucky in the year last mentioned, when the deeds of 

 Sudie D. made her famous. This filly is by Sherman's 

 Hambletonian, out of a daughter of American Clay, 

 and must have shown great promise early in the sum- 

 mer, for it was said that Bowerman Bros., of Lexing- 

 ton, bought her in August for $1,300. After George 

 Bowerman drove her a trial in 2:36, John S. Clark, of 

 New Jersey, gave — so the papers said — $5,000 for her. 

 He started her at Lexington, October 16th, and she 

 went the mile in 2:35|. When the news arrived that 

 the Palo Alto yearling record had been eclipsed we 

 at once set to work to bring the honor back. The 

 time was short, and we had to pick a good one of 



