1 8 The Trotfing and ibe Pacing Horse 



the question with official heads of governing asso- 

 ciations, and took the train from Colorado for 

 Kentucky. At Lexington I met President John- 

 ston of the National Trotting Association, Presi- 

 dent Allen of the American Trotting Register 

 Association, and Secretary W. H. Knight of the 

 American Trotting Association, and views were 

 exchanged. I was in the judges' stand with Presi- 

 dents Johnston and Allen, when it was directed 

 that all trials with shields should be so entered 

 in the official record book of the meeting. The 

 object of this was to bring the question squarely 

 before the governing associations. The letter 

 which the late J. Malcolm Forbes wrote me 

 on the shield question is given elsewhere. I 

 agree with him that a distinction should be made 

 between wind-shields and dirt-shields. 



Under date of December ii, 1903, the sons of 

 Robert Bonner addressed a letter to William H. 

 Knight, Secretary of the American Trotting Reg- 

 ister Association, protesting against the accept- 

 ance of the 2.05 of Lou Dillon at Cleveland, 

 September 12, 1903. The reasons given were 

 that the announcement was made that Lou Dillon 

 would trot to high- wheel sulky to beat the 2. 08 J 

 of Maud S. ; that the performance was invalidated 



