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racing horses. I suggested to Blaney that we 

 call the race oft" and each draw down $25. 



"What, quit? Why," Blaney said, "not on 

 your life." We would have that race and on 

 that day, if we never had another. Others 

 tried to' change his decision, but it was no use. 



In the first heat, and while in the lead 

 Charlena broke and cut her quarter and Rubs- 

 ley G. won the heat jogging. The next heat 

 Charlena pulled up lame and the race was 

 over. 



A dead game sport had put one of. the best 

 racing prospects in the club out of commis- 



sion 



and no one regretted it more than I did, 

 and many times wished that it never had hap- 

 pened. 



Twenty-five dollars of my money went tor 

 a set of horse clothing for Rubsley G., $25 for 

 a blowout for the boys the next meeting night. 

 and $25 to purchase a solid silver mounted 

 whip, as a prize to the horse winning the most 

 races on the speedway the next season, the hrst 

 prize of that value ever given in the Dorches- 

 ter Gentlemen's Driving Club. The whip was 

 won by Princess Ebilo, owned by F. J. Brand. 

 She won eight races on the Blue Hill Avenue 

 Speedway during the season. 



How the Champions Passed the Last 

 Years of Their Life 



1 By Charles T. Harris of The Horse Review) 



Editor's Note. — What became of the trotting and pacing champions after their 

 racing days were over? When in the height of their turf careers they entertained 

 immense throngs at all of the important racing centers of the country, and their 

 names were by-words in innumerable households. With the passing of the old-time 

 favorites the question frequently arises as to their ultimate fate. The writer ably 

 relates these facts. 



THE TROTTING CHAMPIONS 



LADY SUFFOLK, 2:29 1-2, the 

 first trotter to beat 2:30 in 

 harness, was a gray, foaled in 

 1833, and started as a six-year- 

 old in long-distance races. Her 

 first mile better than 2:30 was in 2:28, under 

 saddle, July 4. 1843, at the Beacon (L. I.) 

 course, in which race she defeated Beppo and 

 Independence. The next week she defeated 

 Beppo and the pacer Oneida Chief, lowering 

 her saddle record to 2:26 1-2. On October 13, 

 1S45, also over the Beacon course, she beat 

 Moscow, after five heats, trotting one of them 

 in 2:29 1-2. This was her best harness rec- 

 ord, although she raced up to 1852, in har- 

 ness, under saddle and to wagon. She had a 

 wonderful career for her time, being on the 

 turf fourteen years, in which period she won 

 eighty-three races and was beaten forty-one 

 times. Lady Suffolk died on Long Island. 

 Although several times bred, she never hail a 

 foal. For many years her mounted skin was 

 on exhibition in the wareroom of the Brew- 

 ster Carriage Co.. on upper Broadway, New 

 Y. >rk. 



Highland Maid, 2:27, who succeeded Lady 

 Suffolk, was a bay. foaled 1847, an d began 

 racing in 1853, but her career was very brief, 

 as the records show but four races to her 



credit, only one of which was a victory. Her 

 record of 2 127 was made in the second heat 

 of a race won by Flora Temple, and in the 

 following heat Highland Maid Was distanced. 

 Her record was tied by the gelding Tacony 

 the following month. This mare, as a race 

 winner, was a failure, albeit a world's record 

 maker. Highland Maid produced several 

 foals. During her later years she was owned 

 by George C. Hitchcock, of New Preston, 

 Conn. 



Flora Temple in August, 1859, set the 

 mark at 2 .22. when she beat Princess in a 

 match, and equaled the record in September 

 at Baltimore, in another match she won from 

 Princess. The bob-tailed mare then made her 

 way westward, first showing at Kalamazoo, 

 where she defeated Princess and Honest 

 Anse, trotting the final heat in 2:19 3-4, which 

 was then regarded as an amazing perform- 

 ance. This mile was Flora Temple's supreme 

 effort, her next fastest mile being 2:20 1-2. 

 in the match with Ethan Allen and running 

 mate at the close of her racing career. Flora 

 Temple ultimately passed to the late Aristides 

 Welch, proprietor of Chestnut Hill Stud, near 

 Philadelphia, afterward known as Erdenheim. 

 She produced several foals for Mr. Welch be- 

 fore her death in 1877. 



Dexter a brown gelding, foaled in 1858, was 

 the first of the great trotters that was bred 



