14 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



Trotting Association, you were in a position to 

 bring about a much-needed change ; but if my 

 recollection is good, no suggestion was made 

 by you that a horse in going against the watch 

 should be more favored than a horse competing 

 against a hostile field. The desire was to 

 remove a prejudice against time records, and 

 to place them on an absolute equality with race 

 records. In actual races no artificial aids are 

 allowed, and the logical presumption is that this 

 is true of performances against time. In a race 

 where every heat must be contested by every 

 horse in the race, and every horse must be driven 

 to the finish, there is no room for a foreign factor 

 like an automobile or a wind-breaking runner, 

 and I should like to be informed what position 

 the Register Association is likely to take on this 

 question. Each year your Association rejects 

 records for one cause or another, and if you 

 could favor me with your views on the reported 

 wind-shield time performances of Dan Patch, 

 Prince Alert, Cresceus, Major Delmar, and Lou 

 Dillon, I would esteem it a favor. It was by 

 slow stages that sneering allusions to 'tin-cup 

 records' were silenced, and I take it that it is 

 not conducive to the best interests of breeding 



