Uhlan, the World's Champion Trotter, 

 His Breeder and His Trainer 



(I'.v Edward E. Cogswell) 



For seven years Mr. Cogswell was Turf Edi- 

 tor of the Boston Traveler, and for eight years 

 held a similar position on the Boston American. 

 He was New England correspondent for the 

 Horse Review, Trotter and Pacer, and the Asso- 

 ciated Press during these years. Before taking 

 up newspaper work Mr. Cogswell conducted a 

 public training stable at Beacon Park, at Mystic- 

 Park and in the employ of such noted breeders 

 as B. D. Whitcomb, W. H. Moody. Com. George 

 Perkins, etc.. winning one season the John B. 

 Clarke prise in lowering all New Hampshire 

 records by a trotter bred in the Granite State. 

 This he acco)nplished with the mare Thetis. Mr. 

 Cogswell was bom in Roxbury. Mass.. and is en- 

 rolled as an Honorary Member in the Metro- 

 politan. Dorchester, and Fellsway Driving Clubs. 



UHLAX, i :5s, the fastest trotter in 

 the world, as is very well known, 

 was bred by Arthur H. Parker, 

 owner of the Shawsheen River 

 Stock Farm. Bedford, Mass. 

 In the Fall of 1900 Mr. Parker purchased 

 from Dr. H. L. Alderman, of Lexington. 

 Mass.. the mare Blonde, by Sir Walter, Jr., 

 2:18 1-4, and another mare, for which he paid 

 $450 for the pair. In the Spring of 1901 

 Blonde was bred to Bingen, 2:061-4, the 

 produce being Lexington, that afterwards took 

 a matinee record of 2:15 1-4. The latter being 

 a small and disappointing foal, Mr. Parker 

 didn't breed Blonde in 1902, but Lexington 

 showed so much promise when a yearling that 

 he bred her back to Bingen in the Spring of 

 1903, and the following vear she produced 

 Uhlan. 



Ed. McGrath, trainer at Shawsheen Farm, 

 did nothing with Uhlan until the Fall of 1905, 

 and then started working him to cart, but the 

 only gait he seemed to have was a saddle gait, 

 and it took McGrath two weeks to get him 

 out of it, and the only way he could do it was 

 to run him out. He kept at him this way until 

 he finally got him on the trot. Uhlan was 

 driven on the snow that Winter, and on April 

 28, the following Spring, won a race over the 

 farm track of half-mile heats in 1 .22 1-2, and 

 two weeks later he worked a half mile in 1:17. 

 He was then turned loose for ten weeks. 

 Then, taken up and driven a little and sent to 



Readville. where, right off, he stepped a mile 

 in 2 -.28. one-quarter in 35 seconds. 



The following Winter, 1906 and '07, Mr. 

 Parker took him over to Charles River Speed- 

 way, where he most favorably impressed a 

 great many people who saw him step. Mr. 

 Parker offered him for sale for $1,500, but 

 found no takers. Early in May, he started in 

 a race of half-mile heats against aged horses 

 over the farm track, winning in 1 :n 1-2, 1 :io, 

 and 1 :i2. Mr. Parker took him to Readville 

 early in July, and started him in three mati- 

 nees of the Gentlemen's Driving Club, winning 

 all in straight heats, one in 2:21 1-4. 



Charles Sanders, of Salem, Mass., was 

 favorably impressed by the colt's performance, 

 and asked Mr. Parker to put a price on him, 

 and Mr. Parker named $2,500. Two or three 

 days later Mr. Parker worked Uhlan a mile 

 for Mr. Sanders in 2:20, and repeated in 

 2:161-4. Mr. Sanders bought him at once, 

 and the following week drove him a mile to 

 wagon in a winning race in 2:13 3-4. 



Uhlan's racing career in 1908, as a four- 

 year-old, was under the charge of Robert 

 Proctor, the well known Readville track- 

 trainer and driver, who won with the noted 

 gelding all the races with the exception of one, 

 taking a record of 2:071-4. 



The season of 1909 Trainer Proctor had 

 Uhlan in rare condition, as at the Cleveland 

 track, he made Hamburg Belle establish a 

 new world's race record for trotters, of 



