82 The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



Stanford, enthusiastically congratulated. We 

 then heard remarkable stories about the vitality 

 of St. Clair, whose origin was shrouded in dark- 

 ness. October 27, 1888, Sunol by Electioneer 

 reduced the two-year-old record to 2.18, and she 

 was followed by another representative of Palo 

 Alto Farm, Arion by Electioneer, dam Manette 

 by Nutwood. In 1881, October 5, Charles Mar- 

 vin drove him to a record of 2.1 5|; October 21, 

 to a record of 2.14^; and November 10, at 

 Stockton, to a record of 2.1 of. This was to high- 

 wheel sulky, and Arion still heads the two-year- 

 old list. His owner, Mr. J. Malcolm Forbes,^ in 

 a letter to me, dated October 11, 1903, concerning 

 wind-shields and other matters, expressed views 

 that I endorse: " I have yours of October i, and 

 in case you have not seen a picture of the wind- 

 shield used at Empire City in front of Prince 

 Alert and Major Delmar, I send you one. It 

 would be so unjust to all other records to allow 

 the use of such contrivance that I feel pretty sure 

 that the 1.57 and the two minutes made with its 

 shelter will not be allowed. I have drawn a 

 dotted line across the lower piece of canvas that 

 will show what was used on the sulky of Lou 



1 Mr. Forbes died early in 1904. 



