The Driving Clubs of Greater Boston 



nent places in the history <>f the professional 

 turf of this country. Among those that can 

 readily he brought to mind, having a national 

 reputation, can he mentioned the trotting 

 mare Trinket, 2:14. the champion four-year- 

 old trotter in 1S79, when she earned a record 

 of 2:10 3-4. She was the property of A. S. 

 Gushee. 



Jewett. the champion three-year-old trotter 

 in 1879, wun ;l record of 2:2^ 1-2, and later 

 converted to a pacer, getting a record of 2:14, 

 was for years the champion snow horse of 

 New England. During that time he was own- 

 ed by J. M. E. Morrill. 



Ethel's Pride. 2:06 3-4, winner of the clas- 

 sic Transylvania stake at Lexington, Ky., and 

 an $8,000 stake at Syracuse, N. Y., in 1905, 

 was then the property of John Shepard. 



Nut Boy. 2 :o/ 1-4, who went all the way 

 down through the Grand Circuit, in 1906, 

 without losing a race, and who has won a 

 heat at Franklin Field Speedway in 1 :oi, 

 which equals the best time ever made by a 

 trotter over that piece of racing dirt, was 

 owned by Patrick O'Hearn. 



Ralph Wick, 2:13 1-4, the trotting gelding 

 that has the distinction of having won more 

 races over half-mile tracks than any other 

 trotter raced in this country or Canada, and 

 first placed the record of the speedway of 1 :oi, 

 was owned by A. M. Johnson. 



Phoebon \\\. 2:08 3-4, which was owned 

 by W. J. Furbush, and entertained the mem- 

 bers and spectators at Franklin Field on 

 many occasions, and on one in particular, 

 when he and Bunker Hill raced five heats on 

 the quarter of a mile speedway, the average 

 time being in 30 seconds, the record for the 

 course for a five-heat race, and which event 

 was never fully decided as to which pacer 

 was the better, the club giving to both a silver 

 cup as the winner. 



Altro L., 2 109 3-4, that has been a veteran 

 in winning blue ribbons over at Franklin 

 Field Speedway, when not engaged in mati- 

 nees at South Weymouth, was owned by 

 Harry C. Thayer. 



Kentucky Star, 2:08 1-2, a persistent race 

 horse and one of the fastest matinee pacers in 

 New England, was owned by C. H. Belledeu. 

 Then can he named Parker S., 2:06 1-2, the 

 property of W. J. Furbush; The Private, 

 2:07 1-2, owned by Harry Russell; Cascade, 

 2:06 1-2, Thomas Griffin's speedy pacer; Caf- 

 feeno, 2:07 1-4, owned by Fred H. Bellows; 

 Ned Wilkes, 2:09 1-4, one of the gamest race 

 horses that ever looked through a bridle, 

 owned by Louis Pfingst ; Mascot, Jr., 2:10 1-4, 

 owned by John Hood; Judge Green, 2:09, a 

 good trotter over the Grand Circuit, owned 

 by H. P. Gallup; Early Bird. Jr., 2:11 1-2, 

 owned by A. E. Kenney; Senator L., 2:12, 

 owned by John Shepard; Sanford L., 

 2:12 1-2, owned by T. A. Bresnahan, and 

 George G., 2:12, owned by W. J. Fitzgerald. 



Bunker Hill, 2:13 3-4; B. S. Dillon, 

 2:14 1-4; Annie Lee, 2:071-4; Grace G, 

 2:05 1-4; Postman, 2:14 1-4, can all be re- 

 membered as the property of R. G. Crosby. 

 Rex, 2:13 1-2, the pacing gelding that held 

 the records of the Marshfield and South 

 Weymouth tracks for several years, and a 

 consistent winner at the matinees, owned by 

 John Neal ; Rondo, 2:143-4, one of the 

 sweetest matinee horses in the club, owned by 

 S. Walter Wales; Wilkes Brino, 2:141-2, 

 has won many blue ribbons for his owner, 

 A. J. Legg; Landlord, 2:16 3-4, that had the 

 honor of defeating more horses for the cham- 

 pionship ribbon on the Dorchester speedway 

 in his day than any other horse, was owned by 

 C. L. Young. 



While among the others are Max G, 

 2:12 1-4, owned by A. G. Turner; Rubsley G, 

 2: 16 1-2, owned by Jesse Moulton ; Bob Fitz, 

 2:17 1-2, owned by H. P. Gallup; Bonnets' 

 O'Blue, 2:18 3-4, owned by George D'Arcy; 

 Budweiser, 2:181-4, and Reno K., 2:15 1-2, 

 owned by J. W r . Linnehan ; Susie F., 2 :20 1-4, 

 owned by J. Rollin Stuart, Jr. ; the great mat- 

 inee trotter, Lady Madison, 2:20 1-4 who held 

 the championship longer than any other trot- 

 ter in the Dorchester Club, owned by P. J. 

 Fitzgerald, and the fast but unfortunate mare, 

 Charlena, 2:22 1-4, owned by C. C. Blaney. 



